TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A funeral procession for the victims of a terrorist attack on the revered Shah-e Cheragh shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz attracted tens of thousands of people.
High-ranking governmental and military officials attended the big ceremony on Saturday morning.
The participants held up photos of the victims while chanting anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Saudi, and anti-British slogans in reference to the countries' support for the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group.
Additionally, they requested that those responsible for the heinous act of terrorism be brought to justice as quickly as possible.
After the funeral procession, the coffins will be flown to Mashhad, in the northeast, which is home to the holy shrine of the eighth Shiite Imam, Ali ibn Musa al-Reza, where mourners will say their final goodbyes to the martyrs.
After Friday prayers yesterday, Iranians from all walks of life took to the streets across the country, including the capital Tehran, to condemn the terrorist attack on Shah-e Cheragh holy site.
They waved signs and chanted slogans asking for the prosecution of the perpetrators.
A heavily-armed terrorist assaulted the well-known shrine on Wednesday, just before the evening prayers, killing 13 pilgrims — including a lady and two children — and injuring at least 40 others.
The attacker opened fire indiscriminately on visitors within the shrine, according to the police commander of Fars Province. The perpetrator was wounded and taken into custody by security personnel. He later succumbed to his wounds.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences to the Iranian nation, assuring that the perpetrators of the “outrageous” crime will definitely face punishment.
IRGC chief: US, Israel main architects of recent riots across Iran
Chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Saturday the United States and Israel have hatched a sinister plot to incite the recent riots across the country.
Addressing the funeral procession in Shiraz, Major General Hossein Salami said the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are desperate about their back-to-back defeats in West Asia, including in Yemen.
The senior commander stated that those behind Iran’s riots cannot tolerate the Islamic Republic’s political and spiritual influence across the region, and have therefore resorted to provoking unrest inside Iran, but to no avail.
He said Washington has a long history of making attempts to weaken Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic has successfully overcome hurdles caused by inhumane US sanctions.
“The Iranian nation has well proven that the US cannot do a damn thing,” Major General Salami said, emphasizing that Pentagon officials did not dare to respond when the IRGC targeted the US-run Ain al-Asad in Iraq’s western province of Anbar on January 8, 2020, after launching a wave of attacks to retaliate against the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
The IRGC chief stressed that the Iranian nation is inspired by Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shiite Imam and the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon Him), and his companions in the fight against tyranny.
He added, “The US wants the Iranian nation to be dependent in order to plunder its natural wealth. It wants the Iranian universities to be shuttered and its public assets torched.”
“The Islamic establishment is deeply-rooted in the hearts and minds of the Iranian nation,” Major General Salami said, calling on young Iranian rioters not to sell their honor to American statesmen.
“My advice to rioting students is: ‘Return to the nation, don’t play into the hands of enemies,” he said.
“Those flouting hijab and harassing veiled women are following the path of enemies. This ominous plot of riots in Iran has been constructed in US command rooms.
We (Iranians) will bury US pipedreams in this land. We also warn Saudi rulers to think about the repercussions of their actions,” the high-ranking Iranian military commander also noted.
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