...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
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
claimed by 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 has risen to at least 91, Iranian state TV reports.
The TV quotes Babak Yektaparast, a front man for the country’s emergency services, as saying an 8-year boy and a 67-year-old man who were maimed in the attack have now died.
Yektaparast adds that there are 102 people still being treated in hospitals, of whom 11 are at death's door.
In Wednesday’s attack, one jacket wallah detonated his explosives, then another attacked 20 minutes later as emergency workers and other people tried to help the maimed.
The attack took place in Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran. It targeted a commemoration for Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani
, killed in 2020 by a US dronezap as he led its expeditionary Quds Force.The intelligence ministry said Friday that one of the two suicide bombers was a Tajik national
...not surprising, given that ISIS-K claimed the attack...
and 11 people linked to the attack have been arrested.