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Death toll of the terrorist attack near a cemetery in Iran more than 200 people
2024-01-04
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Follow-up to this story from yesterday.
[Regnum] The number of victims of a terrorist attack near a cemetery in Iran where Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qasem Soleimani is buried has risen to 211 people. The television and radio corporation IRIB reported this on January 3.

“The number of victims of the terrorist attack in Kerman has reached 211 people,” the report says.

Previously it was reported that 103 were killed and 142 were injured.

As Regnum reported, two explosions occurred in the Iranian city of Kerman during a mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Soleimani.

Authorities called the incident a terrorist attack. The explosions were carried out remotely; the bombs were placed in bags that were lying near the mausoleum building.

Soleimani was killed on January 3, 2020, as a result of an airstrike by American forces near Baghdad airport. The Pentagon said the strike was carried out on the personal orders of then-US President Donald Trump.

Trump later noted that US authorities consider it acceptable to eliminate the country's opponents and that the CIA has organized many such killings in the past. Iran responded to the killing of Soleimani by attacking American military bases in Iraq.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail chimes in: Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows 'harsh response' for 'evil and criminal enemies' after remotely detonated bombs killed nearly 100 and injured scores more during cemetery gathering to mark anniversary of spymaster Soleimani's assassination
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Posted by:badanov

#9  A Polaroid moment.
Posted by: Woodrow   2024-01-04 19:24  

#8  ISIS makes sense. During his life Soleimani hunted down and killed numerous ISIS members.

Ironic that everyone was looking for a revenge attack on the anniversary of his death. There was one, but from an unexpected direction.
Posted by: Sninemble Flaviting1731   2024-01-04 15:03  

#7  ISIS vs IRAN. whoopie!! but i wonder why.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-04 14:08  

#6  Sometimes, the bad things happen to the right people!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-01-04 13:32  

#5  ^I mean it was Soleimani's memorial. So the victims are hardly innocents.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 12:31  

#4  Me too Grom - I saw ISIS took responsibility and laughed at myself. Today I am reminding myself that ISIS is America's 'moderate rebels'.
Posted by: mossomo   2024-01-04 12:28  

#3  ISIS claims responsibility for deadly blasts near Soleimani’s grave in Iran

I just can't condemn it - am I a bad person?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 11:54  

#2  Oh well.
Posted by: Cesare   2024-01-04 09:41  

#1  Why bad things happen to good people?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 00:56  

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