Terrorist militia IS claims responsibility for attack in Iran
Terrorist militia IS claims responsibility for attack in Iran
The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the devastating attack in the Iranian city of Kerman that left more than 80 dead. The terrorist militia explained this via its usual propaganda channels.
More than 80 people died in an attack in the Iranian city of Kerman. Now the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The group announced this through its usual propaganda channels.
DThe terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the devastating attack in the Iranian city of Kerman that left more than 80 dead. The group made the announcement on Thursday through its usual propaganda channels. Two assassins detonated their explosive belts during mourning events on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the death of Iranian General Ghassem Soleimani, the statement said.
In the attack near Soleimani’s gravesite on Wednesday, 84 people were killed and 284 injured in two huge explosions. The federal government and the EU condemned the attack as an act of terror. It was the deadliest attack in the 45-year history of the Islamic Republic.
More than a year ago, IS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite shrine in the cultural metropolis of Shiraz. The attack in October 2022 killed more than a dozen people. The judiciary then publicly executed two men with Afghan citizenship whom Iran had held responsible for the attack.
IS considers Iran’s predominant Shiite population to be apostates from Islam and despises them. Shia, the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, is the state religion of the Islamic Republic. A regional branch of IS is active in neighboring Afghanistan, where the group wants to establish a “province” called IS-Khorasan near Pakistan.