Key Points
Two explosions occurred near an Iranian cemetery during a ceremony commemorating Qassem Soleimani's 2020 killing by a U.S. drone..
Ambulances rushed to the scene in Kerman as attendees gathered to honor Soleimani's anniversary..
No group immediately claimed responsibility for what Iranian state media called a terroristic attack shortly after the blasts in Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran...
Sunni extremist groups including the Islamic State group have conducted large-scale attacks in the past that killed civilians in Shiite-majority Iran, though not in relatively peaceful Kerman...
Relatively unknown in Iran until the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Soleimanis popularity and mystique grew after American officials called for his killing over his help arming militants with penetrating roadside bombs that killed and maimed U.S. troops...
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