The Islamic State took responsibility for two bombings in Iran Wednesday that killed almost 100 people at a ceremony to honor a commander killed by the U.S. in 2020, according to multiple reports Thursday.
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The Islamic State took credit for the attacks—which it called a “dual martyrdom operation,” according to the New York Times—on its Telegram channels Thursday.
The two bombings occurred in Kerman, Iran, near the gravesite of Qassem Soleimani, a commander who was killed by a U.S. drone attack in 2020, at a ceremony that was commemorating the fourth anniversary of his death.
The group said two militants set off explosive belts that were strapped to them “near the grave of the hypocrite leader,” the New York Times reported.
The bombings killed an estimated 84 people and wounded around 280 others and was seemingly the deadliest militant attack on Iran since 1979, the Associated Press reported.