“Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is one of the most dangerous threats to international peace and security,” the statement said, underlining “the need to hold the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and supporters of these reprehensible to account.” acts of terrorism”, to be “brought to justice”.
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday “strongly” condemned the “heinous terrorist attack” in Iran, which claimed the lives of 84 people a day earlier in Kerman (south) and was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. (IK).
UN Security Council member states “strongly condemn the heinous terrorist attack committed in the city of Kerman,” near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iranian military operations abroad and the “axis of resistance” in the Middle East, amid a ceremony to on the four-year anniversary of his death, expressing “condolences” to the “families of the victims”.
“Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is one of the most dangerous threats to international peace and security,” the statement said, underlining “the need to hold the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and supporters of these reprehensible to account.” acts of terrorism”, to be “brought to justice”.
The two explosions that targeted the crowd near the Shiite Sahab al-Zaman mosque, where General Soleimani’s tomb is located, killed 84 people and wounded 284 others, according to a downwardly revised toll Thursday from the country’s emergency response services.
It was the deadliest attack in the Islamic Republic since 1978, when an arson attack killed at least 377 people at a movie theater in Abadan, according to an AFP tally.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on Thursday, stressing via Telegram that two of its members “activated vests with explosives” that had been placed in the middle of “a large gathering of defectors, near the tomb of their leader Qassem Soleimani”.
The former leader of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards is known to have personally coordinated much of the operations of pro-Iranian armed groups in Syria and Iraq against IS.
The attack in Kerman came against the backdrop of an extremely tense atmosphere across the region, following the October 7 outbreak of the Israel/Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and the day after the death of the deputy leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Saleh al-Aruri, in an airstrike in a suburb. of Beirut, attributed to Israel.
Source :Skai
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