13 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday the arrest of the man considered the mastermind behind the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of nearly 90 people in Kerman, in the east of the country, in January.
The suspect has been identified as Abdullah Koweyteh, who was arrested after an operation about which no further details have yet been released, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
The attack, a double suicide bombing, occurred on January 3 near the grave of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who headed the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force until his death in 2020 in a US airstrike in Iraq.
The first of the explosions took place about 700 meters from Soleimani’s grave, located in the Garden of Martyrs in Kerman, while the second bomb exploded minutes later in a nearby area during an event for the fourth anniversary of Soleimani’s death.
Iran has pointed to the Afghan faction of Islamic State as a possible accomplice to the attack, at least in terms of training the two suicide bombers responsible for the operation.
“This is not the end of the investigation into the Kerman terrorist disaster and the operation is still ongoing,” the Iranian Intelligence Ministry added in a statement reported by Tasnim.
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