Published January 04,2024
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan conveyed condolences Thursday for these killed in a terror assault in Iran, throughout a phone name along with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in accordance with Turkish diplomatic sources.
Fidan and Amir-Abdollahian additionally mentioned the upcoming go to of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Türkiye.
Raisi was scheduled to go to Thursday and meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however the journey was postponed after a phone name between the presidents following the assault Wednesday.
The blasts occurred outdoors the cemetery in Kerman the place hundreds had gathered to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the dying of the previous chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020.
Earlier, authorities had put the dying toll at 103, which was later revised by forensic specialists to 84, together with 284 injured.
The Daesh terror group claimed accountability for the assaults in a press release on Telegram.
The group mentioned “more than 300” had been killed in two suicide bombings within the Iranian metropolis, figuring out the 2 bombers as Omer al-Mohed and Safiullah Mujahid who detonated explosive-laden vests within the crowd.
The assaults are the deadliest for the reason that 1979 revolution when it comes to casualties.
Source: www.anews.com.tr