Iranian authorities stated on Friday that safety forces had arrested 11 folks suspected of involvement in two bomb blasts that killed almost 100 folks at a memorial service for a slain navy commander.
The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibilty for the assaults in Kerman, southeastern Iran, on Wednesday.
Iran’s intelligence ministry stated in an announcement safety forces detained two folks for offering assist to the 2 suicide bombers in Kerman and 9 others primarily based in different components of Iran who had been suspected of hyperlinks to the incident.
The bombings had been the deadliest such assaults in Iran because the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The killing of a large number of citizens, including children, in the terrorist explosions in Kerman – for which ISIS has taken responsibility – is another sign of the destruction and cannibalism of Islamic Jihad on the one hand, and the incompetence and worthlessness of the Islamic Republic on the other hand. ISIS and the Islamic Republic are two sides of the same, Islamic fundamentalist coin.
The Islamic Republic is a machine of death and misery even for its supporters. The lives, wealth and security of Iranians are of no importance to the Islamic Republic, which could have spent the country’s resources on the well-being and security of Iranians, and to prevent the operations of jihadi terrorists in our country. Instead it harasses women and youth, trains and supplies Islamist terrorists around the world, and tortures and kills freedom fighters and patriots.
This regime not only massacres, terrorizes, and suppresses its opponents— the majority of Iranian people— but it is also unable to provide security for its few supporters. Supporters of this incompetent and criminal regime should join the majority of the Iranian nation in its opposition to the Islamic Republic, for even they will have an even better life in a free Iran.
The solution is clear: overthrowing this evil regime, returning Iran to the path of progress and civilization, and providing security and freedom for all Iranians under the rule of law.
crown prince Reza Pahlavi said on x – Jan 4th 2024
As victims had been buried on Friday, mourners wept over their coffins and crowds chanted “revenge, revenge,” state TV confirmed.
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Nearly 100 folks had been killed within the blasts at a memorial service for navy commander General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in Iraq in 2020 by a U.S. drone.
The explosions came about amid a tense temper within the area as Israel’s warfare towards Hamas in Gaza neared the three-month mark.
The Intelligence Ministry stated its brokers seized explosive gadgets and uncooked materials, explosive vests, remote-control gadgets, detonators and thousand of pellets utilized in explosive vests. One of the suicide bombers was recognized as a Tajik nationwide, it stated.
Islamic State stated on Thursday two of its members had detonated explosive belts within the crowd that had gathered for Soleimani’s memorial.
“We will discover you wherever you’re,” Revolutionary Guards commander Major-General Hossein Salami stated on the funeral in Kerman’s Imam Ali spiritual centre.
President Ebrahim Raisi stated in a televised deal with. “Our forces will resolve on the place and time to take motion”.
In 2022, Islamic State claimed duty for an assault on a Shi’ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 folks, whereas earlier assaults claimed by Islamic State embrace twin bombings in 2017 that focused Iran’s parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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