Funeral of Iran blasts victim.
Funeral of Iran bomb attack victim on January 5, 2024, in Kerman, Iran.
  • Scores were killed in blasts on January, at a memorial event for a celebrated Iranian military chief.
  • ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack.
  • Iran vowed revenge and fired missiles at ISIS bases in Syria.

On January 3 in Kerman, a city in southeastern Iran, large crowds gathered to mark the fourth anniversary of the US killing of the top Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander, Qassem Soleimani.

By the day's end of the day, scores of supporters of the rulers of Iran were dead, and hundreds were injured in a twin suicide bombing.