EU, France strongly condemn terrorist attacks in Iran

By Esra Tekin

PARIS (AA) - The EU and France condemned a terror attack Wednesday in Iran where a ceremony was being held to commemorate a top Iranian general who was assassinated by the US.

EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote on X that he had a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Borrell expressed condolences to Abdollahian for the bomb attack in Kerman, where 103 people were killed.

"I condemned this terrorist attack in the strongest terms and expressed solidarity with the Iranian people," said Borell.

France's Foreign Ministry said separately that Paris strongly condemned the terror attack.

The explosions occurred on a route leading to the cemetery where Qassem Soleimani, the former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, is buried.

At least 103 people were killed, according to Sayyed Mohammad Saberi, the head of the city's Emergency Organization.

Officials declared the explosions were a terror attack.

Soleimani was killed Jan 3, 2020, in a US drone strike outside the Baghdad airport in Iraq.

*Writing by Alperen Aktas from Istanbul