ISIS took credit for the Wednesday bombing in Kerman, Iran, that killed at least 84 people, but Iran has yet to formally attribute blame for the attack.
According to Iran’s PressTV, ISIS issued a statement on its Telegram channels that said two of its members detonated explosive belts in a suicide attack. Iranian officials initially said two bombs were likely placed in bags at the scene, but a source told Iran’s IRNA news agency that at least one of the explosions was the result of a suicide bombing.
“The suicide bomber in the first incident was a man who was completely dismembered as a result of the explosion and the identification of the suicide bomber is under investigation,” the source said. “The cause of the second blast was most likely the same.”
The bombing targeted a memorial commemorating the fourth anniversary of the US killing of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani, who was targeted by a US drone strike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020. Initial reports said over 100 were killed, but the latest death toll is 84.
Israel is also a suspect in the bombing since it has a history of carrying out sabotage attacks and assassinations inside Iran, but never anything on the scale of the bombing in Kerman. Israel has also been carrying out attacks across the region and recently killed a senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria.
Iranian officials have hinted at a potential Israeli role but say they’re carrying out an investigation to find the perpetrators. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed a “harsh response” to the bombing.
It’s pretty old news that daesh are zionist shock troops. Not sure why people are still acting like fools when it comes to the chain of command.
Exactly. “suicide bombing” is a stretch, more likely there a couple of crash test dummies left at the scene among all the dead.
I don’t know who took credit or what kind of charade this is, but one thing is for sure there isn’t any ISIS. I spend most of the year in the ME, ISIS hasn’t been a thing since about 2016. This is pablum for the masses and some kind of PR stunt, by who exactly I don’t know. “ISIS” pops up when Israeli world support for genocide is shaky, the Houthis are humiliating the US and UK, and most important, there is an election and Biden’s poll numbers suck.
Maybe it was Putin.
It was most likely either the USA or Israel.
Based on what? You guys who hate America and Israel will blame anything on those countries without any proof. That is what hate does.
This is what the hatred you support and share does.
My “allege hatred” causes people to make stuff up? OK
Again, have you been living under a rock?
What do you base your beliefs on? Where is your proof ISIS took credit for the attack? A twitter account? A MSM propaganda rag’s claim? You have no evidence that it was ISIS while on the other hand there is voluminous evidence of Israel’s and the USA’s belligerence towards Iran. Got it sporto?
ISIS took credit for the attack as reported by a large number of outlets including Arab based one. But you prefer to make things up to support your anti-sematic/ anti American views.
So now you are claiming that “outlets including Arab based ones” don’t “make things up?” Are you really that stupid? Are you so ignorant that you would take fascist rags at face value? It seems you are. Dumb as rock you seem to be.
Of course Frank Russo, as the US hater you are, you’ll always blame the US and support its adversaries.
“It was most likely…”
You already have all the evidence. Lol
What a tool you are.
Rizzo. Frank Rizzo. Get it straight shit for brains. I don’t have all the evidence, but given the 20 + years of history we have to go on my attribution is probably correct.
Given the 20 years….
Problem solved then, Franco Russo.
I see you’ve reached the point in the day where you have become incoherent from the alcohol. I suggest you lay off the sauce. You claim you are against imperial adventures but seem to have no problem with neocon led ones. The reason is clear. Because you are a neocon, i.e. fascist scum. Your kind will soon be an endangered species much like the Nazis before you left in the dustbin of history.
ISIS fights for muslim. It does. It always says . Look how it is fighting for Gazan. It has been planting bombs sucide bombers in side TelAviv since Oct 7.
LOL!!!!!
I hate to say it but Israel seems a more likely candidate to me…. I hope the US has got a response to this, diplomatically speaking…
ISIS takes credit and you still want to put the blame on US, West, Israel, Ukraine.
You guys are ridiculous.
There’s no ISIS, I am in the Gulf now and if they were active it would have been a big issue here. Years ago when ISIS and Alqaida were active the security forces and police had their hands full, not to mention security issues for the average person day to day.
No ISIS? Tell that to the relatives of those killed.
What about the relatives of the 120,000 + civilians murdered by the USA in Syria during their war on ISIS? What about them? Do they count? What about the 20,000+ Palestinian civilians recently killed by Israel and enabled by the USA? Do they count? Or are you just worried about those killed by American and Israeli proxies in the region?
Your silence is telling you fascist scum.
Russia dismantled ISIS in Syria and any “ISIS” left are assets of Western intelligence agencies. All of my Iraqi friends know this and have been saying as much since 2014.
And yet ISIS bombed Iran, but hey it is more fun to blame the West.
Did you not understand the word “asset”?
I do, and it does not apply.
Sez you. You have amply demonstrated that you don’t know shit about fuck. Either that or you are a shill.
They are probably also an “asset.” Only a complete moron could be so ignorant about what has gone on in the Middle East over the last 20+ years. I am here assuming that someone posting on Antiwar.com is aware of the history, but I could be wrong about that. I mean this website is one of the primary repositories of this history. Much of it has been erased from other places on the internet.
Who’s having fun? Are you really not aware of how American intelligence agencies armed and supported Al-qaeda and ISIS in Syria via cash and weapon shipments via Incirlik airbase in Turkey? Are you really so daft?
And you will believe anything as long as it is Anti-American. And of course at the same time giving credit to Russia.
And you will believe anything as long as it is spoon fed to you by corporate press. Why don’t you just stop it? No one believes your fascist BS anymore.
Not me. I dont take sides like you think.
The U.S. and Israel (the leaders and those who support them, not the innocent people mind you ) are not free from blame either like you suppose.
Remember WMD, Fake CNN and Faux news reals, and incubator babies.
How can they be trusted?
You seriously think everyone lives in a bubble?
Coming from you, that is truly a compliment. 😉
Not me, I blame all the murderous thugs alike, They all kill innovent people with impunity, Your side, their side,. . . All sub human moraless gatbage who only look after their own profit., Current leaders of U.S. Israel, Ukraine, Inclided.
Its all kill innocents including children. Building biolabs that contain man made viruses you immune system cant fight. Robbing, stealing, etc.
Each side says its not me.
Each side lies.
Its all these corrupt leaders and the way of peace they know not.
If you dont care about stopping the killing of children. You are part of the problem. If you think thats not so. You have a mental issue.
Just IMO i suppose
Why would Israel do this?.
Are you living under a rock?
So the reason Israel would do this is because I am living under a rock? That is a a strange reason for Israel to do this. There is no reason for Israel to do this.
Fascist monsters are beyond logic. Although in this case it is the logic of survival for Bibi. His goose is cooked and the moment he stops backing the far right he goes straight to jail. Are you not aware of what is currently happening in Israeli politics?
If you ignore Israel’s actions and rhetoric over the last 30+ years, then yes, you must have been living under a rock. Assassinations, sabotages and begging the US to go to war on their behalf might make one think Israel had motive. At least if one wasn’t living under a rock.
Because the have done it before and have been angling for an attack on Iran for something like 3o years. Are you really this daft? or are you just a shill?
When did Israel have two suicide bombers attack Iran civilians? Are you really that misinformed? Or are you simply an anti-sematic person?
Are you claiming that just because something has never happened before it can never happen? Are you really that stupid, or are you simply an anti-logic person?
And you think since suicide bombers are responsible then that clears the US and Israel of any wrongdoing? Damn you’re naive.
Because their leader is run amok,, why did Hitler do what he did. Not everything has a decent logical reason does it.
ISIS announcement is just smoke screen to cover Israel/US doctored attack.
And you know this how?
It’s an educated guess. 40+ years of belligerence from the US (actually 7o+ if you go back to the coup in 1953). 30+years of Israel begging the US to go to war with Iran.
Exactly, it is a guess and not a good one. The US and Israel do not use suicide bombers.
They employ them, just as they employed the Mujahideen/Taliban in Afghanistan.
Do you honestly think I meant that a US or Israeli soldier strapped on a suicide vest? Like others have already said, we employ/fund them. Ever hear of the MEK?
And you know this how?
It was Israel who were looking after injured ISIL members when ISIL were at their strongest.
I’m surprise it wasn’t Nuland or Sullivan. Lol.
But it doesn’t matter, US haters here are already pointing in that direction.
Biden, Blinken and Sullivan, oh my!
The US haters will always blame the USA at any chance they get without any proof. That is just what they do.
Fascist troll gonna do what a fascist troll gonna do, aren’t you?
You are the troll calling someone you disagree with Nazi and/or Troll?
D bag.
You are on the wrong website shit for brains. No one here is falling for your schtick. In other words: get fucked you fascist scum.
It’s obvious to anyone with a brain that the US and/or Israel are behind this attack.
Well, if “ISIS” actually does still exist, this would be proof of who they actually work for.