LONDON: A man opened fire in the Iranian parliament on Wednesday and injured a guard, a witness told Reuters.

"A person entered Iranian parliament today and started shooting at the guards. He shot one of the guards in the leg and ran away," two semi official agencies, Fars and Mehr, reported on their telegram feeds.

The semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that a guard was hit in the leg, and two members of the public were also injured.

The identity and the motivation of the assailant was still unclear, Tasnim said.

The witness told Reuters that security forces had massed inside and outside parliament, and that the incident was now over.