Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for a pair of bombings that killed dozens of people a day earlier in the largest attack in Iran since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, dispelling suspicions that Israel might have been behind the attack amid worries of a broadening regional conflagration.
The blasts took place with the Middle East on edge because of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and increasing tensions between the US and Israel on one side and other Iranian-backed militant groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen on the other.
Islamic State said in a statement that two of its operatives had detonated explosive belts at the public ceremony in Kerman where crowds were commemorating the death of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, who was killed in January 2020 by a US airstrike.
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