Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned about this this Friday Your country will decide the “time and place” of revenge for the attack by suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State on Wednesday in the city of Kerman. The double explosion, recorded during an event marking the fourth anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's death, Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Al-Quds Force – killed by US forces in a drone strike on Baghdad airport – has already left at least 89 dead and nearly 300 injured, some of whom are in critical condition.
“The Iranian armed forces will take the initiative and determine the time and place” for the response to the perpetrators of the massacre, the Iranian president said this Friday during the funerals for the victims at the Kerman cemetery, according to the agency. Iranian Tasnim, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards. “Our enemies have already observed and experienced the extent of Iran’s power.”stated the President.
The commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General, also spoke to the crowd that gathered to commemorate the victims of the attack and address the perpetrators Hossein salamiassured yesterday that “We’ll meet you where you are.”
The crowd gathered at the funeral sang the traditional “Death to America” And “Death to Israel” except screaming “Revenge, revenge”. It is not for nothing that Tehran regularly defends the fact that both Washington and Tel Aviv support armed groups that are enemies of the Islamic Republic. Yesterday from Tehran, a key religious leader of the Iranian regime, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, said: He insisted that the United States and Israel were the creators of Daesh. according to a statement from the official IRNA agency.
Likewise, an anonymous source close to the investigation assured in a statement from the aforementioned Tasnim agency that several facts support the alleged Israeli involvement in the attack claimed by the Islamic State: The language that the jihadist organization uses when referring to the Islamic Republic refers to “Iran” rather than “Land of Persia”, the lack of a fatwa or edict issued by Daesh before the attack, the relatively late acceptance of responsibility for the crime and the dissemination of the effigies of the material perpetrators of the attacks.
Furthermore, the Iranian Interior Minister said, Ahmad Vahidireported this Friday the arrest of at least eleven suspicious people to have been involved in the preparation of the attack in Kerman. The statement, published by the Revolutionary Guards-affiliated agency Tasnim, links the “elements involved in last Wednesday's crime” with “regimes that support terrorism.”
The Caliphate versus the Islamic Republic
It was in June 2017For the first time, the Islamic State, or Daesh – which declared the caliphate in the countries of Iraq and Syria between 2014 and its overthrow in 2019 – hits Iranian soil to the mullahs' regime. Several men dressed as women broke into the Iranian parliament and a suicide bomber detonated an explosive at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeni, the founder of the Islamic Republic, in Tehran. Weeks later, the mullahs' regime publicly executed two people responsible for the attacks, leaving 12 people dead and 42 injured.
In October 2022, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on one Shia shrine in Shiraz after an unknown person opened fire on those gathered at the mausoleum of Shah Cheragh, killing 15 people and injuring four dozen. In August last year, less than a year later, Iranian authorities blamed another attack on another Shiite shrine in the same city on the Islamic State of Greater Khorasan – a branch of the organization based in Afghanistan and Pakistan – that resulted in deaths. by at least one community member.
This Wednesday was not only the bloodiest attack by the jihadist organization that defends a rigorous version of Sunni Islam, but also The worst attack the Islamic Republic has suffered since its founding in 1979. The attack in Kerman came a day after the death of Saleh al Arouri, Hamas' number two, in a suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.