| Follow up to this story from yesterday, when it was claimed around 200 were killed. |
[Regnum] The Islamic Statt claimed responsibility for two terrorist attacks in the Iranian city of Kerman, in which 103 people were killed. This was reported by Reuters, citing a statement from the organization."Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two bombings that killed nearly 100 people and wounded many more at a ceremony in Iran commemorating commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone in 2020," it said.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on January 3, in the Iranian city of Kerman, an explosion occurred on the road leading to the cemetery where General Qasem Soleimani is buried. Ambulances were sent to the scene. The media also reported a second explosion.
The number of victims of a terrorist attack near a cemetery in Iran where Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani is buried has risen to 211 people. Previously it was reported that 103 were killed and 142 were injured.
According to media reports, Red Crescent employees were among the dead.
Following the terrorist attack, the Iranian government declared January 4 a day of universal mourning.
In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 3 expressed deep condolences to the leadership of Iran in connection with the tragic consequences of the terrorist attack in Kerman. The President's message was sent to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the country's President, Ibrahim Raisi.
| The Times of Israel adds: |
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
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Experts who follow the group confirmed that the statement, circulated online among jihadists, came from the murderous Moslems, who likely hope to take advantage of the chaos gripping the region amid Israel’s war on Hamas
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Wednesday’s attack in Kerman killed at least 84 people and maimed another 284. It targeted a ceremony honoring Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani
, held as an icon by supporters of the country’s theocracy and viewed by the US military as a deadly foe who aided gunnies who killed American troops in Iraq.
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group identified the two attackers as Omar al-Mowahed and Seif-Allah al-Mujahed. The claim said the men carried out the attacks with explosive vests. It also used disparaging language when discussing Shiites, whom the Islamic State group views as heretics.
The statement did not mention which regional arm of the bully boyz carried out the attack, which other claims in the past have had. But Aaron Y. Zelin, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that some previous claims have not specified the regional arm, and that the latest claim came directly from an account associated with the group.
The group likely hoped to see Iran strike at Israel, widening its war on Hamas into a regional conflict that Islamic State could potentially take advantage of, Zelin said.
"This falls under the modus operandi of IS, especially since it was such a mass casualty attack," Zelin said. "They are kind of like the Joker. They want to see the world burn. They don’t care how it happens as long as it benefits them."
An earlier report by the state-run IRNA news agency, later aired by state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, quoted an unnamed "informed source" as saying that surveillance footage from the route to the commemoration at Kerman’s Matryrs Cemetery clearly showed a male jacket wallah detonating explosives.
The official said the second blast "probably" came from another suicide bomber, though it hadn’t been determined beyond doubt.
The Iranian state media reports also gave new distances for how far apart the blasts happened, describing them as occurring 1.5 kilometers (about a mile) and 2.7 kilometers (1.68 miles) away from Soleimani’s crypt. The official said the bombers likely chose the locations because they were outside of the security perimeter for the commemoration.
An earlier corpse count of 103 was twice revised lower after officials realized that some names had been repeated on a list of victims and due to the severity of wounds suffered by some of the dead, health authorities said.
Many of the maimed were at death's door, however, so the corpse count could rise.
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