103 people were killed and more than 211 injured in a bomb attack near the tomb of Qassem Soleimani in Iran on Wednesday. The United States called suggestions that the United States or Israel were involved in the two explosions “absurd.”
The United States deemed “absurd” any suggestion that the United States or Israel were involved in the attack perpetrated Wednesday in Iran near the tomb of Qassem Soleimani, and assured that no country had “an interest in a climbing” in the region. “The United States was not involved in any way. Any assertion to the contrary is absurd,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.
He did not specify who he was referring to, simply speaking of having seen “allegations circulating” and indicating that he did not have “independent” information on the attack. “We have no reason to believe that Israel is involved in this explosion,” he added, also deploring the civilian deaths.
“A brutal terrorist”
At least 103 people were killed and more than 211 injured in this attack on Wednesday near the tomb of Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East, whose death Iran is commemorating on the fourth anniversary, media reported of state. Asked also about the elimination of a senior Hamas official in Lebanon, Mr. Miller replied that Saleh al-Arouri was “a brutal terrorist.”
Mr. al-Arouri, Hamas’ political number two, was killed Tuesday by an airstrike in the heart of a stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah supported by Iran, in the suburbs of Beirut. “It is in no one’s interest – not any country in the region, not any country in the world – to see this conflict escalate further than it already has,” he said. – he then affirmed that everyone fears seeing the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip extend to the entire region.