Reports of between two and four explosions at ceremony marking fourth anniversary of killing of top general Qassem Suleimani

Two explosions have killed at least 103 people and injured scores more at a memorial ceremony in Iran marking the fourth anniversary of the US killing of Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force and one of the most powerful men in the Middle East.

A senior official called the blasts a terrorist attack, without elaborating on who could be behind them. No one has immediately claimed responsibility for what appeared to be the deadliest attack to target Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

According to IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, the first explosion in the south-central city of Kerman occurred 700 metres from Suleimani’s burial place and the second 1km from it.

  • Quokka@quokk.au
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    8 months ago

    Iran is also a far-right ethnostate.

    A far-right ethnostate that murder, rapes, and terrorises women, children, and men for “morality”.

    A far-right ethnostate that tried to draw Yemen and Lebanon into the war by launching proxy attacks.

    For those who actually oppose far-right ethnostate, let’s make sure we oppose all of them.

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      8 months ago

      An ethnostate how? There are plenty of Kurds, Afghans, Azeris and others.

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      Iran is a multi-ethnic society. What ethnicity is the ethno-state you imagine centered on? Persians? You know that General Soleimani wasn’t a Persian? Or that Iran’s supreme leader is an Azeri Turk? Or that the merchant class of Iran is not centered on Persians? How is this an ethno-state? Zionists sure like projection it seems…