Explosions kill crowd in Iran during procession to grave of USkilled general
The message, broadcast on a terrorist channel on Telegram, echoes the version defended by the United States, which on Wednesday denied responsibility for the attack and said the attack had similar characteristics to the actions of the Islamic State.
In the statement, the Islamic State did not reveal the motivation for the attack or other evidence of authorship, but the group was a rival of Soleimani and also opposes the current Iranian regime. The Islamic State is made up of Sunni radicals, opponents of Shiite Muslims like those who rule Iran.
You The groups currently financed by Tehran, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, are also Shiite.
The attack on Wednesday (3) was carried out by two explosions against the crowd a few meters from Soleimani's grave, located in the Kerman cemetery, around 800 kilometers from the capital Tehran. In addition to the 84 deaths, there were 211 injured, according to the Iranian emergency service.
The first explosion occurred about 700 meters from the Iranian general's grave, according to Kerman emergency services. According to local authorities, the second explosion occurred a few minutes later at a more distant point and close to the first emergency services that had already arrived.
On Wednesday, shortly after the attack, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not name any culprits, but said the attack was carried out by “evil and criminal enemies of the Iranian nation.”
“The evil and criminal enemies of the Iranian nation have once again caused tragedy and martyred a large number of our loved ones in Kerman in the fragrant atmosphere of the martyrs' graves in Kerman,” he said in a statement.