Will Iran retaliate after Wednesday's bombings in Kerman?

Iran threatens retaliation after two blasts killed more than 80 people during commemorations for an assassinated general.

More than 80 people were killed in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman when two explosions went off during a crowded procession on Wednesday.

The attack happened during a ceremony marking four years since the United States assassinated one of Iran’s top generals, Qassem Soleimani.

Iran's Qassem Soleimani killed in US airstrike in Baghdad airport

Nighttime incident occurred amid tensions with the US after Iraqi protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad.

General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been reported killed alongside six others following a US airstrike at Baghdad's international airport.

Iraqi officials and the state television reported that aside from Soleimani, Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed in the attack.

Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesman for Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed militias, also confirmed the attack.