Iran Press/Iran news: In a statement on Monday, Bahram Ghassemi expressed deep concern about victimization of Iranian pilgrims in an attack on their bus near the Iraqi city of Balad, and strongly condemned the 'barbaric and inhumane' attack.
He stressed that the Foreign Ministry and Iran’s embassy in Iraq will seriously pursue the incident and take care of those injured in the attack, Iran Press reported.
“The banished and defeated terrorist groups in Iraq are still under illusion of self-assertion and resort to such inhumane crimes in order to, what they wrongly believe, harm the links and unity between the Iranian and Iraqi nations,” the spokesman deplored.
He finally noted that such vicious plots will get nowhere and such catastrophes will only strengthen the two nations’ resolve to uproot the remnants of criminal terrorists.
Nine Iranian Shiite pilgrims traveling in central Iraq were wounded and one pilgrim killed when their bus came under attack by unidentified gunmen.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. 105
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