DUBAI ¨C Two explosions killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, Iranian officials said, blaming unspecified ¡°terrorists.¡±
Iranian state television reported a first and then a second blast after 20 minutes during a crowded fourth-anniversary event at the cemetery where Soleimani is buried in the southeastern city of Kerman.
No one claimed responsibility for the blasts. A senior Biden administration official said in Washington that the blasts appeared to represent ¡°a terrorist attack¡± of the type carried out in the past by Islamic State militants.
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