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    Emil Lazarian
  • 2 years ago
    • Categories: 2024

Armenpress: Iran says at least 103 people killed, 141 wounded in explosions at ceremony honoring slain general

 19:46, 3 January 2024

YEREVAN, JANUARY 3, ARMENPRESS. Iranian state media said Wednesday at least 103 people have been killed by explosions minutes apart targeting a commemoration for a prominent general slain in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Another 141 were wounded,  Iranian media reports.

The blasts struck an event marking the the fourth anniversary of the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, who died in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.

The explosions occurred near his grave site in Kerman, about 510 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran.




Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS