Iran says bomb blasts at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 103 people and wounded 188 others. Iranian state television and officials described the attacks as bombings, without immediately giving clear details of what happened. Last week, a suspected Israeli strike killed a Revolutionary Guard commander in Syria. Until Wednesday, the deadliest attack to strike Iran since the revolution was the 1981 truck bombing of the Islamic Republican Party’s headquarters in Tehran. That attack killed at least 72 people, including the party’s leader, four government ministers, eight deputy ministers and 23 parliament members.

Source: Huffington Post January 03, 2024 20:48 UTC