AT LEAST 103 people were killed and 188 wounded in Iran today as explosions struck an event marking four years since the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

Crowds had gathered to mark the anniversary near his grave in Kerman, a city about 500 miles south-east of Tehran.

Iranian officials described the deadly blasts as a terrorist attack, though it was not immediately clear who was behind it. Iranian media reported that two briefcases stuffed with explosives had been placed at the entrance to the cemetery and detonated remotely, one 15 minutes after the other — a tactic used by some terrorist organisations to kill emergency service workers responding to the first attack.