Iran Voices Concern about Terrorist Attacks in Afghanistan

In a statement on Thursday, Saeed Khatibzadeh voiced Tehran’s concern about the “bitter incidents” in Afghanistan in the wake of reports of multiple explosions in various cities of the neighboring country.

Denouncing the blind terrorist attacks that have targeted people in mosques in the holy month of Ramadan, the Iranian spokesperson slammed as abhorrent the terrorist actions against fasting Muslim worshippers.

Pointing to the media reports on the most recent blast in Afghanistan’s northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif that has killed and injured tens of innocent people, Khatibzadeh expressed sympathy for the victims of the attack and wished a speedy recovery for the injured.

The powerful explosion that ripped through a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif on Thursday has reportedly killed at least 10 worshippers and wounded another 40.

Earlier on Thursday in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and wounded two children.

Kabul police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, said in a tweet the bomb went off in the median strip of a road in a western area of Kabul in a mostly Shiite neighborhood.

Two days earlier in the same area, multiple explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, mostly children, and wounded 17 others.