The explosions took place amid a tense mood in the region as Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza neared the three-month mark.
The Intelligence Ministry said its agents seized explosive devices and raw material, explosive vests, remote-control devices, detonators and thousands of pellets used in explosive vests. One of the suicide bombers was identified as a Tajik national, it said.
Islamic State said on Thursday two of its members had detonated explosive belts in the crowd that had gathered for Soleimani’s memorial.
“We will find you wherever you are,” Revolutionary Guards commander Major-General Hossein Salami said at the funeral in Kerman’s Imam Ali religious centre.
President Ebrahim Raisi said in a televised address. “Our forces will decide on the place and time to take action”.
In 2022, Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shi’ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 people, while earlier attacks claimed by Islamic State include twin bombings in 2017 that targeted Iran’s parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Source: CNA
