The United Nations Security Council “strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack” claimed by the Islamic State group that killed at least 84 people in southern Iran last day, AFP reports.

Council members “strongly condemn the cowardly terrorist attack that took place in the city of Kerman” near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s military operations in the Middle East, whose death Iran is marking for the fourth time, they said in a statement. statement, sending “heartfelt condolences and thoughts to the families of the victims.”

“Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most dangerous threats to international peace and security,” they affirmed, stressing “the need to prosecute and prosecute the authors, organizers, financiers and supporters of these shameful acts.” terrorism”.

Eighty-four people were killed and 284 wounded in a twin blast on Wednesday that hit a crowd outside the Saheb al-Zaman mosque, where General Soleimani’s tomb is located, according to data released Thursday by the country’s emergency services.

The attack was the deadliest in the country since 1978, when an arson attack killed at least 377 people at a movie theater in Abadan, according to AFP.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack on Thursday, saying on its Telegram channels that two of its members had “activated their explosive belts” during a “large gathering of apostates near the grave of their leader Qassem Soleimani”. “.

The twin blasts came in a highly tense regional context since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7 and a day after the killing of a senior member of the Palestinian Islamist movement in an attack near Beirut attributed to Israel.