Raisi, Iran will decide time and place for response to Kerman
The “time and place” of the Iranian response to the recent terrorist attack in Kerman, Iran will be determined by Tehran's armed forces, he said, addressing participants at the funeral of those killed in the terrorist attack in the southern city of Kerman on 3 January, President Ebrahim Raisi, quoted by the Irna agency. “The enemy,” he said, “has observed and seen many times the greatness of Iran's power, and will once again feel the power of the Islamic Republic of Iran in response to the recent tragic case of Kerman,” he said .
Iran, first arrests announced for the Kerman attack
“Some people involved“in the double attack in Kerman”were arrested“, announced the Iranian Interior Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, without providing details on the matter. The intelligence services were able to “find good leads”, added Vahidi, quoted by the Irna agency. In the meantime he rose to The death toll is 89 of the double attack carried out on Wednesday 3 January near the cemetery of Kerman, in south-eastern Iran, and claimed by ISIS. Around 280 people were injured.
The Interior Minister underlined that among the 89 killed in the attack, claimed yesterday by ISIS, there were 54 women and 10 children under 10 years of age.
The event represents the most serious terrorist attack ever to occur in Iran. The explosions that occurred in Kerman at the cemetery where General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the al-Quds division of the Iranian Pasdaran, is buried, occurred with an interval of 20 minutes between them and using a technique already used by various militias and terrorist organizations in past. They come at a time of great tension in the Middle East region given the critical situation between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip which also threatens to directly involve the IRA's alliesn, further accentuating the complex ongoing crisis.
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