Iran condemns Iraq, Kenya terror attacks

Iran Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has condemned the terrorist attacks on a Shia neighborhood in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

Marzieh Afkham said on Sunday, “Without a doubt, terrorists want to [throw] Iraq into civil war and sectarian strife by fostering religious conflict and inciting people”.
She offered condolences to the Iraqi government and nation over the deadly car bomb attack on Saturday in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
The Iranian spokeswoman stated that terrorists are using such “inhumane and brutal methods” to exact revenge on the Iraqi government and nation and to obstruct the democratic processes and national solidarity of the country.
At least 69 people have been killed and 120 others injured after two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, targeted a funeral in Sadr City north of Baghdad on Saturday.
The Iranian spokeswoman also condemned an armed terrorist attack in a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Saturday.
Afkham said Iran “rejects and strongly condemns any act of terror in any part of the world which targets the lives of innocents”.
Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said on Sunday that at least 59 people have been killed and 175 other injured in an attack by Somali militants on a Nairobi shopping mall as an unknown number of hostages are still being held at the Westgate center.