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Almost 100 dead in blasts at Iran memorial for assassinated commander (www.theguardian.com)

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Two explosions at Kerman ceremony marking anniversary of killing of Qassem Suleimani raise Middle East tensions further

More than 95 Iranians were killed and scores more injured in a terrorist attack at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate the assassination of a top general, further heightening tensions in the increasingly volatile Middle East.

The explosions came at a memorial ceremony in Iran marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force, and it was not clear whether either of Suleimani’s principal regional adversaries – Israel or Islamic State – were responsible for the carnage.

Iran’s new minister of interior, the hardliner Ahmad Vahidi, did not immediately attribute blame for the attack and no side claimed responsibility for the deadliest single terrorist incident since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The US state department said it had no reason to believe Israel was involved.

An early death toll of 103 was revised down, but Iran’s health minister, Bahram Einollahi, said many of the wounded were in critical condition and the toll could rise.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

It's fucked up the most likely reason is Israel is trying to draw other countries into their war so they have an excuse to call in their allies...

This shit might really start WW3, and it's all going to be because the western world supported a far right ethnostate regardless of the evil they commit.

Give someone like that a blank check on rationalizing and literal billions in aid a year and this has always been inevitable.

Especially since the next president is Biden or trump. Neither one will even try to reign in Netanyahu

[-] DeadHorseX@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago

There’s no evidence this was Israel. Iran has plenty of enemies in the Middle East.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Correct, there's no evidence. However it's not like anyone would be surprised to find out the Israelis were responsible, they've committed similar acts previously.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AB0EQ/

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

That's not a similar act at all. Assassinating one of the leaders of Iran's nuclear weapons program isn't like blowing up a bunch of random people at a march.

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[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I’d like to point out that ISIL took responsibility.

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[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Iran is also a far-right ethnostate.

A far-right ethnostate that murder, rapes, and terrorises women, children, and men for “morality”.

A far-right ethnostate that tried to draw Yemen and Lebanon into the war by launching proxy attacks.

For those who actually oppose far-right ethnostate, let’s make sure we oppose all of them.

[-] AreaSIX@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Iran is a multi-ethnic society. What ethnicity is the ethno-state you imagine centered on? Persians? You know that General Soleimani wasn't a Persian? Or that Iran's supreme leader is an Azeri Turk? Or that the merchant class of Iran is not centered on Persians? How is this an ethno-state? Zionists sure like projection it seems....

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

He clearly just meant "theocracy" which it is and makes no apologies about.

Iran is an illiberal hellhole

[-] stmcld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

A Theocracy and an Ethnostate are two different things. If he meant theocracy he would have used the word theocracy, but he didn't. He used the word ethnostate

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I agree. I'm big on specificity of language.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

An ethnostate how? There are plenty of Kurds, Afghans, Azeris and others.

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[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 months ago

I'm not saying it's Mossad, but it's probably Mossad. There are much easier targets than the memorial for Qassem Suleimani: this is sending a message to Iran.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

While it's likely, it could also very well be something purely local.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Are we doing that thing for the first day or so when we argue if it is intelligence, false flag, religious, ethnic supremacists, or mental illness and everyone picks the one they like the best?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

My theory is that the cars just did that.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

When people tell you they 'could just explode', listen to them

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Suleimani's enemies have safety in numbers. Kurds, Saudis or Iraqis are some of the first that come to mind

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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

That's awful. Rest in peace to those who were killed.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I think I'm gonna start taking all my sick time now.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

What a way to celebrate

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

State-run media in Iran cited Babak Yektaparast, a spokesperson for the country’s emergency service, as saying 73 people had been killed and 170 wounded.

Suleimani’s body is buried in the cemetery along with 1,024 other people regarded as martyrs, and the site has become a place of pilgrimage for supporters of the so-called “axis of resistance” against the US and the west.

Suleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020 and was seen as the leader directing Iranian proxy forces in Iraq and Syria.

Iran only recently said it had eradicated a group backed by the Mossad, the Israeli state secret service.

On 25 December, an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), prompting Tehran to threaten that Israel would “certainly pay” for its actions.

Iranian state media identified the commander as Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser of the Quds Force, saying he had been killed in an airstrike near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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