At least 73 people were killed in Iran as two blasts struck a crowd marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of general Qasem Soleimani, state television has reported. Around 170 people were also injured in the incident which took place on Wednesday near the grave of the head of foreign operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in a mosque in the southern city of Kerman, the television reported quoting the country’s National Medical Services Organisation.

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