He added: “We are now evacuating the wounded and injured in the area. Falah said: “The crowd is huge and the task is very difficult, and all the roads leading there are closed.”
The US assassination of Soleimani in a drone attack at Baghdad airport and Tehran's retaliation by attacking two Iraqi military bases housing US forces have brought the US and Iran to the brink of all-out conflict in 2020.
Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in 2020.credit: AP
As commander-in-chief of the Quds Force, the foreign arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Soleimani ran covert operations in foreign countries and was a key figure in Iran's long-running campaign to expel American forces from the Middle East.
Tensions between Iran and Israel, along with its ally the United States, have reached a new level over the war Israel launched against Iranian-backed Hamas militants in Gaza in response to their October 7 attack in southern Israel.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia attacked ships it says have links to Israel at the entrance to the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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American forces were attacked by Iranian-backed militants in Iraq and Syria due to Washington's support for Israel, and they launched retaliatory air strikes.
On Monday, an Israeli air strike killed a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria.
Iran has accused Israel in the past of launching attacks on individuals or places within its borders — allegations that Israel has neither confirmed nor denied — but there was no indication of any foreign involvement in the bombings at Wednesday's concert.
