Iran urges international community to take serious action against terrorism

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the international community needs to take serious action to fight terrorism.

In a phone conversation with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry on Friday, Amir-Abdollahian hailed the South Asian country's message of sympathy over the recent terror attacks in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman.

He said the Iranian security forces are investigating everything pertaining to the tragic incident and collecting information about the perpetrators.

The January 3 explosions were carried out near the burial site of Iran’s late anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani during a ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of his martyrdom. The blasts left 89 people, including 76 Iranians and 13 Afghans, dead and wounded 286, some of them in critical condition.

The Daesh Takfiri terrorists claimed responsibility for the heinous act in a statement posted on their affiliate Telegram channels. Daesh said two of its members had detonated their explosive belts among the crowd.

Iran arrests a number of suspects linked to Kerman terrorist blasts: Minister

“All the elements involved in the terrorist incident will be definitely identified and arrested,” the Iranian interior minister stated.

Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Friday that a number of suspects in connection with the terrorist bomb attacks have been arrested while the security forces had found “solid clues” leading to the whereabouts of the perpetrators of the incident.

Sabry told his Iranian counterpart that Sri Lanka condemned in the strongest terms the Kerman terrorist attacks and stands by Iran's government and people in their fight against terrorism.

Qatar slams Kerman terrorist attacks

Also on Friday, Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani slammed the bloody terrorist attacks in Kerman and offered his condolences to the Iranian government and nation.

In a phone call with the Iranian foreign minister, the two sides also warned against the adverse consequences of Israel's military action against Lebanon and the assassination of the deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut in a drone strike on the southern suburb of the country’s capital.

Amir-Abdollahian and Al Thani also discussed the latest developments in Gaza, which has been under Israel's relentless attacks for more than three months, and certain US claims about ships sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea.

The top Iranian and Qatari diplomats reiterated the need to put a swift end to Israel's killing of the Palestinian people in Gaza and their forced displacement and the removal of the territory’s blockade as well as delivery of humanitarian aid.

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