Iran - At least 100 dead in bomb blasts near general Qasem Soleimani's tomb _ BBC News

More than 100 people have been killed and scores of others injured in two explosions in southeastern Iran near the grave of a top Revolutionary Guards commander , state television says The blast occurred in quick succession in the city of Kerman during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of Qassem Soleimani .

He was Iran's most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a US air strike in Iraq , say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site .

Well , with more on this , I'm joined now by the BBC , Persian's Parham Gardi , who's in our newsroom palm .

Good to talk to you .

Just bring us up to date on what more we know .

So as you mentioned , this is one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in the past 40 years .

It's been unprecedented .

The number of the death toll is rising every few minutes so far .

They say that some of those who are injured are in critical conditions .

We know that at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed .

Some of two others are at least in critical conditions , they say .

that after the first explosion took place the second when people and medics rushed to the scene , The second explosion after 10 minutes took place .

Now what we don't know is that if all these people were killed because of the as a result of the explosion or some of them were killed because of the stampede and the and I'm saying that is because four years ago this was This happened during a ceremony Commemorating marking the fourth anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's death , he was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in 2020 .

Now during his burial four years ago , 56 people were killed in a stampede .

So what we don't know at this stage is that those who were killed today some of them were killed in a stampede again because of the panic and the chaos at the scene or no , all of them were killed as a result of the explosion that took two explosions that took place there .

And what reaction have we had to this ?

So far ?

So Iran has considered this as a terrorist act against Iran , and they said that they would definitely retaliate to whoever is responsible for this .

They know .

No group has claimed responsibility for this .

Iranian media has also rejected the claims by Israeli media that atop Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander was killed .

They said that no commander was killed during these attacks .

OK , thank you very much , Barham , in our newsroom with the latest on that .