Indonesia Condemns Bomb Terror Attack In Iran That Killed Dozens Of Victims

DOCUMENTATION/President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi made a joint press statement at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, Tuesday (23/5/2023). BETWEEN Dwi Gayati/aa.

JAKARTA - Indonesia strongly condemns the heinous attack in the city of Kerman, Iran, which killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more, including children.

"We express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and our condolences to the Iranian people," said the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the X account quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, January 4.

Earlier, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi revised the death toll from 103 to 87, while 284 people were injured as a result of two devastating explosions that occurred in Kerman City on Wednesday (3/1).

The site of the explosion was reportedly close to the burial site of former Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani.

Thousands of people gathered at the venue to commemorate Soleimani's four-year death, the former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC), who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020.

The cause of the explosion is still being investigated by a number of security agencies. So far no group has claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in Iran's history after 1979.