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Iran arrests 11 suspects over bomb blasts, mourners demand revenge — state TV
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Screen capture a video released by state-run Iran Press news agency on January 3, 2024 shows ambulances leaving the site where two explosions in quick succession struck a crowd marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani, near the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque in the southern Iranian city of Kerman. (IRAN PRESS / AFP)
Iranian authorities say that security forces had arrested 11 people suspected of involvement in two bomb blasts that killed nearly 100 people at a memorial service for a slain military commander.
The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Kerman, southeastern Iran, on Wednesday.
Iran’s intelligence ministry says in a statement security forces detained two people for providing support to the two suicide bombers in Kerman and nine others based in other parts of Iran who were suspected of links to the incident.
The bombings were the deadliest such attacks in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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