Iran blames the US and Saudi Arabia for military parade attack
Sunday, ISIS-affiliated Amaq News Agency began circulating a video that claimed to show three of the four assailants accused of carrying out the attack. But none of the men in the video ever said they were working on behalf of ISIS.
CNN cannot verify the authenticity of the video, which Amaq said it “obtained.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has blamed “foreign mercenaries” backed by the United States for the attack.
“It is America who supports these little mercenary countries in the region. It is Americans who are provoking them. It is Americans who provide them with their required necessities to perpetrate such crimes,” Rouhani said on his official website.
“The government is ready to counter any action by the US, and the Americans will regret this,” Rouhani said. It was not immediately clear if this remark referred to the Ahvaz attack or the US withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
“Most importantly, today Americans are bullying the world more than ever and continuing their unilateralist policies,” he said of the nuclear deal.
The United States will not accomplish “their goals in Iran,” he added.
Rouhani made the comments ahead of a trip this week to New York, where he will attend the UN General Assembly.
