Attack with over 90 dead
The USA is said to have warned Iran about IS terrorist plans
January 25, 2024, 10:13 p.m
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Almost 100 people were killed in an attack in Iran in early January. The Islamic State terrorist group claims responsibility for the crime. Now the USA declares: They sent Iran a terror warning in advance.
According to media reports, before the serious suicide attack in Iran at the beginning of January, the US government warned Tehran of possible attack plans by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). “Before the ISIS terrorist attack in Kerman on January 3, 2024, the US government sent Iran a private warning that a terrorist threat existed within Iranian borders,” the Wall Street Journal and CNN quoted a US government official as saying .
On January 3, two suicide bombers killed more than 90 people and injured around 280 others in the city of Kerman. The attack was aimed at a memorial event to mark the anniversary of the death of General Ghassem Soleimani in his hometown. It was the deadliest attack in the 45-year history of the Islamic Republic. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
It is unclear how the USA transmitted the warning and what exactly was communicated, the reports said. The United States and Iran do not have formal diplomatic relations. When asked, the US State Department declined to comment. According to the US government representative, such information comes out of a “duty to warn.” “We are issuing these warnings in part because we do not want innocent people to lose their lives in terrorist attacks.”
More than a year ago, IS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite shrine in the cultural metropolis of Shiraz. The attack in October 2022 killed more than a dozen people. The judiciary then publicly executed two men with Afghan citizenship whom Iran had held responsible for the attack.
IS considers Iran’s predominant Shiite population to be apostates from Islam and despises them. Shia, the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, is the state religion of the Islamic Republic. A regional branch of IS is active in neighboring Afghanistan, where the group wants to establish a “province” called IS-Khorasan near Pakistan.