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Iran Says it Arrested 35 People in Relation to Kerman Attacks

Iranian mourners carry the coffin of Faezeh Rahimi, one of the victims of the recent explosions that struck a crowd in the southern city of Kerman, during a funeral procession after the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, 05 January 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranian mourners carry the coffin of Faezeh Rahimi, one of the victims of the recent explosions that struck a crowd in the southern city of Kerman, during a funeral procession after the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, 05 January 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Iran Says it Arrested 35 People in Relation to Kerman Attacks

Iranian mourners carry the coffin of Faezeh Rahimi, one of the victims of the recent explosions that struck a crowd in the southern city of Kerman, during a funeral procession after the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, 05 January 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranian mourners carry the coffin of Faezeh Rahimi, one of the victims of the recent explosions that struck a crowd in the southern city of Kerman, during a funeral procession after the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, 05 January 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Thirty-five people were arrested in relation to the Jan. 3 attacks in the southeastern city of Kerman which killed 94 people, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said on Thursday according to semi-official Tasnim news agency.

The ministry said it has so far identified one of the two suicide bombers as a national of Tajikistan who entered Iran illegally on December 19.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Hossein Salami have vowed revenge during the funeral of the victims of the Kerman attack.

Last Thursday, ISIS claimed responsibility for the two explosions, saying two militants detonated explosive belts in the crowd that gathered at a memorial for al-Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad in early 2020.

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Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks with Three European Powers in Geneva on Friday

Western countries successfully moved a resolution at the IAEA to censure Iran over its nuclear program - AFP
Western countries successfully moved a resolution at the IAEA to censure Iran over its nuclear program - AFP
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Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks with Three European Powers in Geneva on Friday

Western countries successfully moved a resolution at the IAEA to censure Iran over its nuclear program - AFP
Western countries successfully moved a resolution at the IAEA to censure Iran over its nuclear program - AFP

Iran plans to hold talks about its disputed nuclear program with three European powers on Nov. 29 in Geneva, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, days after the UN atomic watchdog passed a resolution against Tehran.
Iran reacted to the resolution, which was proposed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States, with what government officials called various measures such as activating numerous new and advanced centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium.
Kyodo said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's government was seeking a solution to the nuclear impasse ahead of the inauguration in January of US President-elect Donald Trump, Reuters reported.
A senior Iranian official confirmed that the meeting would go ahead next Friday, adding that "Tehran has always believed that the nuclear issue should be resolved through diplomacy. Iran has never left the talks".
In 2018, the then-Trump administration exited Iran's 2015 nuclear pact with six major powers and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to violate the pact's nuclear limits, with moves such as rebuilding stockpiles of enriched uranium, refining it to higher fissile purity and installing advanced centrifuges to speed up output.
Indirect talks between President Joe Biden's administration and Tehran to try to revive the pact have failed, but Trump said in his election campaign in September that "We have to make a deal, because the consequences are impossible. We have to make a deal".