At least 10 people were killed and 21 others, including a child and a woman, were wounded in an attack on a military parade in Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province, state-run Tasnim news reported Saturday.
Two of the attackers were gunned down during clashes with the security forces and two others arrested, one of them injured, IRNA said.
The parade was part of nationwide celebrations in Iran to mark the 30th anniversary since the end of the eight-year war with Iraq that started in September 1980 and ended in August 1988.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani used the occasion to compare US President Donald Trump to the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Press TV reported.
Speaking at a military rally in Tehran, he said Trump will fail in the “economic and psychological war” he’s launched against Iran, just as Hussein failed in his 8-year war against the Islamic Republic.
“Iran will neither abandon its defensive weapons nor will reduce its defense capabilities,” Rouhani said.
“Rather it will increase its defense power day by day. The fact that they are angry at our missiles shows that these are the most influential weapons Iran has.”
