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FOUND: Bombs kill 73 at iran commemorations for slain general state media | Mind Blowing Facts

Seen here at a meeting of Revolutionary Guards top brass in 2016, General Qassem Soleimani (C) headed its foreign operations until his death in a targeted US drone strike just outside Baghdad airport in January 2020 (Credit: AFP)

At least 73 people were killed in Iran Wednesday as two bombs in quick succession struck a crowd commemorating slain general Qasem Soleimani on the anniversary of his killing, state media reported.

The blasts, which state television called a "terrorist attack", came with tensions running high in the Middle East a day after Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri -- an Iran ally -- was killed in a Beirut drone strike which Lebanese officials blamed on Israel.

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