The Iranian judicial authorities announced this Sunday the arrest of all those involved in the suicide attack that caused 91 deaths last Wednesday in the city of Kerman and which was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
“Thirty-two people have been arrested in connection with the Kerman crime and are being interrogated,” said the prosecutor of the city where the attack occurred, Mehdi Bakhshi, the official IRNA agency reported.
Bakhshi assured that the 32 detainees are "all those involved" in the double suicide attack perpetrated near the tomb of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who headed the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard until his death in 2020 in a United States airstrike. in Iraq.
Until now, Iranian authorities had reported the arrest of 11 people related to the attack and revealed that one of the suicide bombers came from Tajikistan, while the identity of the second has not been confirmed so far.
The Kerman prosecutor also indicated that another “16 bombs have been discovered in the province of Kerman” in recent days, “more powerful than those of the two suicide bombers on Wednesday.”
He also assured that in recent months 23 IS members who were preparing suicide attacks throughout the province have been arrested.
Faced with one of the most brutal attacks in Iran in decades, the authorities of the Islamic Republic have assured that its "perpetrators" will be arrested by the security and intelligence forces and that those who support them "will fear the wrath of the Iranian nation."
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Iranian soil in the past, including an attack on a mausoleum in the southern city of Shiraz in which 15 people died in October 2022.
