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Deadly blast in Iran looks like ‘a terrorist attack,’ possibly Daesh -senior US official
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Two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday looked like a “terrorist attack” of the kind Daesh has been responsible for in the past, Reuters quoting a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday.
The official, speaking to reporters, said “it does look like a terrorist attack, the type of thing we’ve seen ISIS [Daesh] do in the past, and as far as we are aware that is kind of, I think, our going assumption at the moment.”
The ceremony was to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020 ordered by then-President Donald Trump. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, read the report.
