Iran’s president and the commander of the Revolutionary Guards vowed revenge today at the funeral of the victims of the twin bombings carried out by the Islamic State group two days ago.

Nearly 90 people were killed at a memorial service in the city of Kerman on Wednesdayfor the top one commander Qassam Soleimaniarchitect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East, who was killed in Iraq in January 2020 by a US drone.

The Islamic State group said yesterday, Thursday, that two of its members detonated explosive belts into a crowd gathered at a cemetery in this southeastern Iranian city.

“We will find you wherever you are” said the commander of the Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, at the funeral, referring to the Islamic State.

In a televised address, the president Ibrahim Raisi said: “Our enemies can see Iran’s strength and the whole world knows its strength and capabilities. Our forces will decide the place and time they will take action.”

State television showed a large crowd at the Imam Ali religious center in Kerman where families mourned their dead over coffins lined up in rows draped in the Iranian flag.

The crowd was shouting “Revenge, Revenge”, “Death in America” ​​and “Death in Israel”.

The death toll reached 89, including women and children, after the death of five wounded, as reported by state television today.

At least 12 of the victims are Afghan nationalsaccording to the same source.

The bodies of the victims of the attack coming from Kerman will be cremated in the Martyrs’ Cemetery in Kerman after the long Friday prayerwhile the rest will be transferred to their cities of origin.

The TV also broadcast how after the prayer there will be demonstrations across the country to “condemn the terrorist attack” of IK.

General Soleimaniformer head of the Kodh Force, Iran’s foreign operations wing, he is honored in his country for the role he played in the defeat of IS in Iraq and Syria.

Tehran often accuses Israel and the United States of supporting anti-Iranian militant groups that have carried out attacks in the past.

Wednesday’s attacks, the bloodiest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, came as Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza is approaching three months.

In 2022, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Shiite mosque in Iran that killed 15 peoplewhile earlier attacks claimed by the Islamic State included a twin bombing in 2017 targeting the Iranian parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.