Iran has revised down, to 84 dead, the official death toll of the attack that took place yesterday, Wednesday, in the city of Kerman near the tomb of the commander of the Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani.

“According to the latest figures, 84 people have been killed,” the head of Iran’s emergency services, Jafar Miandfar, announced on state television today. He added that there are “248 wounded, of which 195 are still hospitalized.”

A double explosion occurred in Kermanin southern Iran, near the grave of General Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s military operations and the so-called “axis of resistance” in the Middle East, during a memorial service.

Soleimani was killed four years ago by a US drone strike at Baghdad International Airport. The large crowd gathered there consisted of regime officials and civilians.

A previous report by the authorities spoke of 95 dead and 181 injured.

According to Miandfar, the state in which some of the bodies are found makes it difficult to count the victims.

For his part, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi warned that the death toll could rise, as some of the injured were “in a critical condition”.

The attack, for which no one has yet claimed responsibility, comes as the situation in the Middle East is tense after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and a day after a deadly strike in Beirut to the second in command of the Palestinian movement Saleh al-Aruri.