PHOTO: Woman grieves after Saturday’s deadly bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan
Iran’s regime has condemned the Islamic State for Saturday’s bombings in Afghanistan that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif used Twitter late Saturday to put out the message:
#Afghanistan terror bombings another instance of depth of #Daesh depravity: Shia & Sunni are both victims & must unite to defeat extremists.
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) July 23, 2016
The Iranian Foreign Ministry also issued a statement of condemnation and condolences to the families of the victims.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi asserted, “Uprooting terrorism is not possible without cooperation and mutual understanding among all the world’s countries.”
Tehran has quickly reacted to each of a series of recent attacks by ISIS or ISIS sympathizers, including bombings in Brussels airport, a suicide bombing in Bangladesh, and a truck attack in Nice, France.
The Islamic Republic maintains that its support of the Assad regime in Syria’s civil war, as well as its efforts against ISIS in Iraq, are a necessary campaign against foreign-supported “Takfiri terrorists”. Some outletss, especially those connected with the Revolutionary Guards, have accused the US, Britain, and Israel of supporting or even creating the Islamic State.
Through its news agency Amaq, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, which would its first in the Afghan capital and its deadliest in the country.
