The first arrests have been made in connection with the suicide blasts in Iran that left more than 80 people dead two days ago, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said According to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, the secret service arrested the suspects in five provinces. The death toll of the Islamic State-claimed attack rose from 84 to 89 on Friday, according to state media. At a mourning ceremony for the victims in the southern city of Kerman, representatives of the Iranian leadership threatened
One day after the devastating attack in the city of Kerman, Iran's emergency services have once again revised the death toll downwards, this time to 84 killed and 284 injured. The new figures, released on Thursday, are according to the state news agency IRNA, which cited the head of Iran's National Medical Emergency Organization, Jafar Miadfar. State media had initially given the death toll as 103 on Wednesday, but Health Minister Bahram Einollahi corrected it to 95 hours later. Miadfar explaine
An editorial in Iran's arch-conservative Kayhan newspaper blamed Israel for the attack that killed dozens of people near the tomb of Iranian general Quassem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the United States. There are many reasons to assume "that the Zionists were involved in the terrorist explosions," according to Thursday's editorial in the paper read by influential Iranian hardliners. The authors demanded swift revenge, warning that failing to retaliate could lead
One of the two blasts that killed dozens of people near the tomb of Iranian general Quassem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the United States was caused by a suicide bomber, a state-run media outlet reported on Thursday. The evaluation of video surveillance led investigators to the conclusion that a bomber was behind at least one of the explosions that hit the crowd in Soleimani's home city of Kerman on Wednesday, the IRNA news agency reported on Telegram, citing an u
The terrorist militia Islamic State claimed responsibility via its usual propaganda channels on Thursday for the devastating attack in the Iranian city of Kerman that left more than 80 dead. According to the statement, two suicide attackers detonated their explosive belts during mourning ceremonies on Wednesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. In the attack near Soleimani's tomb, 84 people were killed and 284 injured in two powerful blasts. It was