A political adviser to Iran’s president on Wednesday accused Israel and the United States of being involved in two terrorist attacks in the country’s south that killed at least 103 people, AFP reported.

“Washington says the United States and Israel played no role in the terrorist attack in Kerman, Iran. Really?” Mohammad Jamshidi wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“The responsibility for this crime lies with the American and Zionist regimes, and terrorism is only a tool,” he said.

USA: The attack in Iran resembles the attacks of the “Islamic State”.

Washington considers any suggestion of US or Israeli involvement as “absurd”.

“The United States was not involved in any way. Any statement to the contrary is absurd,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told the press, AFP reports.

The twin blasts that killed at least 103 people near Qasem Soleimani’s grave in Iran on Wednesday resembled a “terrorist attack” of the type carried out by the Islamic State (IS) group, a senior US official said, AFP reported. .

“This looks like a terrorist attack, something that IS has done in the past, and that’s what we’re assuming now,” a senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration told the media on condition of anonymity.

The UN “strongly condemns” the double bombing in Iran

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “strongly condemns” Wednesday’s twin bombings in Iran that killed at least 103 people at the grave of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s military operations in the Middle East, following his assassination. , in – the attack of the American drone, Iran commemorates four years, reports AFP.

“The Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) calls for the perpetrators” to be brought to justice, his deputy press secretary Soto Nino said in a press release.