At least 20 people have been killed at a cemetery in Iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 killing of Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani, state media has reported.
The reports added there were two explosions at the site in the city of Kerman where the former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander is buried.
Hundreds of people had reportedly gathered at the site.
An Iranian official described the explosions as “terrorist attacks”, according to state media.
It comes a day after Hamas’s deputy leader Saleh Arouri died in an explosion in Beirut.
Soleimani, once Iran’s top military general, was assassinated in a US drone strike during a visit to Iraq in 2020 to meet Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
The strike caused a major crisis between the US and Iran, leading to retaliatory rocket strikes against US military sites in Iraq and pushing the two countries to the brink of war.
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