The death toll in the explosion that occurred in Iran during the fourth memorial day for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani rose to over seventy people, according to Iranian reports the attack included two different explosions in the area near the cemetery where the commander of the Revolutionary Guards who was killed is buried.
According to reports in Iranian networks and media, the explosion occurred in the city of Kerman in southeastern Iran, where Soleimani grew up and was buried there after his assassination by the United States. According to Iranian reports, it was a coordinated attack that included two separate charges, which caused explosions at different times and in different locations.
After initial analyses of the scene of the incident, it was discovered that it was at least two different charges, which exploded about ten minutes after each other. The first explosive device exploded near one of the southern entrances to the cemetery area and another explosive device later detonated near the northern entrance lane to the compound, one of the explosive devices was hidden a few hundred meters from Soleimani's tomb, while the other was hidden about a kilometer away.
The latest reports state a death toll of 103 people so far, in addition to 170 injured. According to internal reports in Iran, many of the injured and a significant portion of the dead were injured during the panic that arose during the gathering in the area of Soleimani's grave, when many of the injured and the dead were injured as a result of trampling and crushing during the panic of the crowd at the scene, as can be seen in several videos distributed from the scene of the explosion.
So far, no party has taken responsibility for the significant attack in the heart of Iran, which also has a significant symbolic dimension as the explosions occur on the anniversary of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was previously one of the most senior people in Iran as the head of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guards and one of the closest to the country's Ayatollahs, and became with his death a symbol of Iranian aggressiveness and exporting the Shia revolution and all a few hundred meters from his grave.
