Deadly blasts hit commemorations for slain Iranian general • FRANCE 24 English

Well let’s start first with that developing story out of Iran at least 50 people have been killed in blast at a ceremony that was honoring a slain Iranian General the event was marking the fourth anniversary of the death of kasim suani who died in a US drone

Strike in Iraq in January 2020 Iranian officials calling it a terrorist attack well kth van Gorges Don’s been keeping an eye on this for us she joins me now on set cathan what more can you tell us well we’re uh just getting a word of this so there’s very little so far that

We know but as you mentioned uh local officials have said that these were terrorist attacks that’s how they qualified them to uh explosions near that burial site where there was uh this uh event that was marking the four-year anniversary of the killing of that General and it’s important to note uh

And to remind our viewers who that General was Hassam suani he was the leader of the hoods force of uh Iran’s uh uh um revolutionary guard Corps and he was really in charge of the military operations of the Revolutionary guards in all of the regions and he was killed

Uh in Iraq it was a strike that was ordered by then president Donald Trump uh at the beginning of uh 2020 and at the time it uh sparked really a lot of uh concern around the globe really there was even a trend on social media talking about the possibility of World War III

Because the time the Iranians had immediately retaliated by throwing a lot of missiles at uh us interests especially uh in Iraq targeting us bases us interests and so that was uh how important this man this General was now right now we don’t know exactly what caused the explosion what was behind it

But the fact that it is this person uh that they were paying tribute to is important uh in itself and of course of course we have to mention the fact that this comes a day after the killing of Sal alarri in Beirut in Lebanon and the number two of Hamas this involves Hamas

Hezbollah both groups of course tied and supported by uh uh the uh Iranians so this is uh all happening at the same time but we don’t know and we have to repeat that we don’t know yet how much of a connection uh there is uh but it is

Significant because first of all of the number of deaths and if there is any possibility of a spillover if the Iranians see this as a terrorist attack who are they going to blame and who are they going to retaliate against

Dozens were killed in Iran Wednesday as two bombs in quick succession struck a crowd commemorating slain general Qasem Soleimani on the anniversary of his killing, state media reported.
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29 comments
  1. This is a repost but the US and Israel DID NOT DO THIS. We are sorry for the Iranian people and will help find those responsible and bring them to justice.

  2. seems like someone is trying really hard to instigate a direct conflict between the west and that nation; but so far, despite all of these adventures, they have not yet been able to bring this to fruition

  3. Two Iranians are chatting. One of them has his wallet out and is flipping through … The second Iranian says, wistfully, "Ah, they blow up so fast, don't they?

  4. Of course they can , they lost as the biggest army in the world from Afghanistan an way smaller country, America lost from Vietnam a way smaller country.
    After 3 years battle and 400 000 dead soldiers they only captured 18 % of Ukraine.
    If Ukraine had the right weapons this wars would be over by now.

  5. What else would you expect from Israel's desperate assessment of Israel makings of wrong assessments by letting it happen.
    When they could have prevented it…

  6. Pakistan does this to its own civilians to get USA 🇺🇸 tax payers money its normal technics I wonder 🤔 if Pakistan 🇵🇰 did this in exchange for some money 💰

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