ISIS claims responsibility for Iran cemetery bloodbath that left nearly 100 dead
- Two deadly explosions tore through a cemetery in the city of Kerman yesterday
ISIS today claimed responsibility for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores more at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone in 2020.
Two explosions tore through the southeastern city of Kerman yesterday where thousands had gathered to mark the four-year anniversary of Soleimani's killing.Harrowing video showed scores of bloodied victims lying on the floor as others stumbled away from the blast scene close to the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque where Soleimani is buried in what Iran described as a 'terrorist attack'.
Now, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack that left 84 people dead and 284 wounded, saying that two of their terrorists detonated their explosive vests in the middle of a crowd.
Iranian investigators had already confirmed that the first blast at least was the work of a 'suicide bomber' and believed the trigger for the second was 'very probably another suicide bomber', the official IRNA news agency reported earlier, citing an 'informed source'.
Soleimani, who headed the Guards' foreign operations arm the Quds Force, was a staunch enemy of IS, a Sunni extremist group which has carried out previous attacks in majority-Shiite Iran.
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