AHVAZ, Iran — In a collective outpouring of grief, Iranians held funerals Monday for the victims of the weekend terror attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz that killed 25 people, the deadliest attack in the country in nearly a decade. Saturday’s assault in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan, was blamed on Iran’s Arab separatists. Others, mainly young people wearing ethnic clothes of the region’s Arab minority, held large photographs of those slain in the attack. Arab separatists have claimed the assault, in which Guard members and soldiers were among those killed and wounded. Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Western diplomats, accusing them of allegedly providing havens for the Arab separatists behind the attacks.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 24, 2018 10:30 UTC