- Explosions hit Soleimani tomb
- Over 100 killed in ceremony
- No group claims responsibility
Two explosions were reported by Iranian state media in the city of Kerman, where the grave of the former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander is located.
Over a hundred individuals have been killed by an explosion at a cemetery where a ceremony commemorating the 2020 assassination of Iran’s highest-ranking commander was taking place.
Iranian state media reported two explosions at the burial site of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani in the city of Kerman.
Saeed Tabrizi, the mayor of Kerman, stated to the Iranian state-run ISNA news agency that the explosions occurred approximately ten minutes apart.
Local media outlets report that the number of injured individuals exceeded 140.
Rahman Jalali, the deputy governor of Kerman, labelled the explosions “terrorist attacks” but refrained from specifying the perpetrators.
According to two unidentified sources cited by Iran’s Tasnim news agency, “two bags containing bombs detonated” at the location, and “the perpetrators… of this incident apparently detonated the bombs via remote control.”
Tehran is beset by both internal and external adversaries.
Israel has been accused in the past of conducting drone strikes against Iranian military installations. Whereas Sunni extremist organizations like Islamic State have bombed the predominantly Shia nation, frequently targeting civilians.
No group has formally acknowledged accountability for the explosions that occurred on Wednesday.
One day after the explosion in Beirut, an explosion killed Saleh al Arouri, the detachment commander of Hamas.
Second in Command
The United States conducted a drone strike in 2020, eliminating former Iranian military chief Nawaz Soleimani. He was in Iraq to meet with then-Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
A significant diplomatic crisis ensued between the United States and Iran as a result of the drone strike. The two nations reached the verge of war as retaliatory rocket strikes launched against American military installations in Iraq.
A rampage killed 56 mourners after over a million people gathered to remember Soleimani.
After serving in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Soleimani rose to prominence as a commander within his nation.
Iran’s theocratic leadership revered him as a national hero and second most powerful person. He trailed only Ali Khamenei, the paramount leader of Iran.
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He led the Quds Force, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Police section that conducted military and intelligence missions abroad.
The United States classified the group as a terrorist organization.
They asserted that Soleimani supervised Quds Force personnel during their unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adel al Jubeir, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, at the upscale Cafe Milano in Washington in 2011.
Furthermore, Soleimani was highly regarded for his strategic planning of Iran’s military campaigns in Iraq and Syria, as well as his substantial influence over the formation of the “Axis of Resistance,” which Western officials dubbed the “Axis of Evil” and which comprised Iranian-backed militias, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza.
