The site of the bombings on the route towards the Martyrs' Cemetery with the dome of the Saheb al-Zaman mosque visible in the background
Location
Kerman, Iran
Date
3 January 2024 15:50–16:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)
Attack type
Suicide bombings
Deaths
105 (including the two attackers)[1]
Injured
284[2]
Perpetrators
Islamic State – Khorasan Province[3]
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meeting with Qasem Soleimani's family two days before the bombings.[4][5]
On 3 January 2024, a commemorative ceremony marking the killing of Qasem Soleimani at his grave in eastern Kerman, Iran, was attacked by two bomb explosions. The attacks killed at least 103 people[6],[1] and injured 284 others.[2][7][8] The Iranian government declared the bombings a terrorist attack,[9] making it the deadliest such incident in the country since the Cinema Rex attack of 1978.[10] On the following day, ISIS, a Sunni extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack in the Shia dominated country.[11] According to Reuters, the United States Intelligence Community concluded that the attack was perpetrated by the Afghanistan branch of the ISIS, ISIS-K.[3]
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^"واکنشهای گسترده به ادعای خامنهای درباره «حرف خدا» از «زبان» او «دیکتاتور» دیگر کنترلی بر خود ندارد" [Wide reactions to Khamenei's claim about the 'word of God' from his 'language': the 'dictator' no longer has control over himself] (in Persian). 2 January 2024. Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
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