The Times of Israel reports: A spokesman for the Iranian army on Saturday blamed Israel and the US for an attack that has killed at least 29 people and wounded over 60 at a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
The death toll continued to climb on Saturday and is expected to rise further as some victims, including women and children, were critically injured in the armed assault.
Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi told the state news agency IRNA, that the gunmen who opened fire at the parade, marking the anniversary of the start of its 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, were “not from Daesh [Islamic State] or other groups fighting [Iran’s] Islamic system … but are linked to America and [Israel’s intelligence agency] Mossad.” Shekarchi also claimed “the terrorists have undergone training in two countries in the Persian Gulf.”
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