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in two explosions in south eastern iran, near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. bbc persian s parham gobadi gave me further details of the blast. as you mentioned, this is one of the deadliest attacks in iran in the past a0 years. it has been unprecedented, the number of the death toll is rising every every few minutes, so far. they say that some of those who were injured are in critical conditions and we know at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed, two others, at least, are in critical conditions. they say that after the first explosion took place, the second, ....
To whoever is responsible for this. no group has claimed responsibility for this. iranian media has also rejected the claims by israeli media that a top, iran s revolutionary guard commander was killed. they say no commander was killed during these attacks. following on from the explosion, our colleagues at bbc verify have been analysing the material circulating online, authenticating it and piecing together what was happening on the ground. richard irvine brown explains to us the process. the martyr s cemetery was packed with thousands of people today, many of whom will have filmed what happened around the explosions. there are cameras from members of the public, from state media, from online channels. and when we try to authenticate any video from bbc verify, no matter where it has come from, ....