Two explosions minutes apart at a commemoration in Iran for a prominent general who died in a US drone strike in 2020 killed at least 103 people and injured more than 140 others on Wednesday.The blasts came as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.No group immediately claimed responsibility for what Iranian state media called a "terroristic" attack shortly after the explosions in Kerman, about 510 miles (820km) south-east of the capital, Tehran.While Israel

Two explosions minutes apart at a commemoration in Iran for a prominent general who died in a US drone strike in 2020 killed at least 103 people and injured more than 140 others on Wednesday.The blasts came as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.No group immediately claimed responsibility for what Iranian state media called a "terroristic" attack shortly after the explosions in Kerman, about 510 miles (820km) south-east of the capital, Tehran.While Israel has carried out attacks in Iran over its nuclear programme, it has conducted targeted assassinations, not mass-casualty bombings.Sunni extremist groups, including so-called Islamic State, have carried out large-scale attacks in the past that killed civilians in Shiite-majority Iran, though not in relatively peaceful Kerman.Iranian state television quoted Babak Yektaparast, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, as the source of the casualty figures.