also to update you, the officials here have revised the death toll, they brought it down now to 85 from 95 and 103 originally. nonetheless, still marks the deadliest terror attack in iran since the islamic revolution in 1979. the big question now is how are iranian officials going to deal with this new claim by the islamic state? are they going to back track on everything they have said about israel and the united states? something they do here as well, yasmin, they ll say, well, the islamic state was working on behalf of israel in america. so we re going to be waiting for comments from iranian officials now. yeah. unbelievable. major developments there to say the least, the islamic state reiterating, claiming responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that happened in the south of iran. just so folks understand, the majority of the iranians are shia muslims where as the majority of members of the islamic state are suni muslims.
explosives. the report added that a second blast probably also came from another suicide bomber. but they re still trying to determine exactly what happened with the second blast. the report also said that the bomb was likely chose the location because they were outside the security perimeter for the commemoration. and as you mentioned, just after that report came out, the islamic state on their official telegram channel claimed responsibility for the attack. they said that two bombers using explosive belts detonated them and they took great pride in saying they had killed around 100 shias who are who they are obviously very opposed to. so, this goes against everything iranian officials have been saying since last night, pointing the finger at israel and the united states. and now this islamic state have apparently taken responsibility for this attack.
detonating explosives. adding that the second blast probably came from another suicide bomber but they re still trying to determine that. the report also said that the bomber probably chose the location because it couldn t get inside the security perimeter for the commemoration. now, right after this report came out, andrea, islamic state the islamic state group s official telegram channel, they suddenly claimed responsibility for the attack. they said that two suicide bombers with explosive belts debt ton natured themselves ten minute as part in the middle of the crowd and killed almost 100 people and they took great pride in the fact that they had killed 100 shias. now, obviously, as you ll remember, almost immediately after the attack, yesterday, iranian officials were pointing the finger at israel. saying this was an israeli/american operation and
capital. many reports indicated that he was back in the good graces of russian president vladimir putin on monday. his official telegram channel released a video showing him in subsaharan africa, wagner had been operating on behalf of the russian government. but a question how a man that tried to lead a coup against vladimir putin could survive. this is all according to preliminary reports and information from russian state media, indicating ten people on board this business jet, three were crew members and one of them was the leader of the wagner group. he used fake identities to get away from certain things. we don t want to speculate who shot it down but russian state
the state department expects to be able to evacuate some american who is wish to leave the african country of niger. they plan to transport them on a flight for nonemergency diplomats and family members them comes after the nation s democratly elected president says he was detained by son-in-laws in a military coup. president biden called for his immediate release. keep in mind, the country of niger is a key u.s. partner, serving as a base for hundreds of u.s. troops to assist with counterterrorism missions. jim in. jailed opposition leader alexei navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in a russian prison today. he was clearly not shocked by the decision. just received this statement posted in navalny s official telegram channel. he says he already knows he s serving a life sentence. cnn political and security analyst david sanger joins me