At least 73 people died and 170 people were injured after that Two explosions in the city of Kerman this Wednesdaywhere Fourth anniversary of the death of Iranian General Qasem SoleimaniFormer leader of the Quds Force, Iran’s overseas military intelligence services.
Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad ordered by former US President Donald Trump. This Wednesday is a crowded one. Thousands of people gathered around his graveTo commemorate and shout out to the general in Kerman take revenge United States of America. At that time, two explosions occurred approximately 700 meters away from the cemetery where Soleimani’s body was located. The first explosion occurred at three in the afternoon local time; The second one in thirteen minutes, according to Iranian emergency services.
According to Iranian officials, the cause of the explosions was “Terrorist attack” carried out with two suitcases loaded with explosivesAccording to the Tasnim news agency, it had previously been placed there and remotely detonated close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the political-military body that controls the higher echelons of power in Tehran.
But for now No one claimed responsibility for the alleged attackThis happened just hours after the killing in Beirut of Saleh Al Aruri, Hamas’ number two so far. Hamas is one of the Middle Eastern militias that form the region that Tehran calls the ‘Axis of Resistance’ under Iranian tutelage and money.
However, in previous years HE Islamic State (ISIS)has already carried out many actions and attacks Against the Iranian civilian population. Israel, the author of the murder of Al Arouri, has also carried out bloody actions in Iran in the past, but never against the civilian population, but against high-ranking officials of the Iranian government, especially the scientists responsible for the Iranian country’s nuclear program. uranium enrichment.
“The number of injured is mainly due to the large crowd in the area and all the people running away After hearing the explosions,” an official from Iran’s emergency services told Tasnim.