{"id":12945,"date":"2024-02-19T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12945"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:13:27","slug":"us-warned-iran-that-isis-k-was-preparing-attack-ahead-of-deadly-kerman-blasts-a-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12945","title":{"rendered":"US warned Iran that ISIS-K was preparing attack ahead of deadly Kerman blasts, a US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman<\/a> earlier this month that killed 95 people, a U.S. official said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official, who was not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the U.S. was following its longstanding policy of a \u201cduty to warn\u201d other governments against potential lethal threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official did not detail how the U.S., which does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, conveyed the warning about its intelligence on ISIS-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, but noted that government officials “provide these warnings in part because we do not want to see innocent lives lost in terror attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian state media did not acknowledge the U.S. giving Tehran the information, and Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Jan. 3 attack on Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of Iran\u2019s capital, Tehran. The dual suicide bombing killed at least 95 people and wounded dozens of others attending a commemoration for the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s expeditionary Quds Force, who had been killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike<\/a> in Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the time since, Iran has been trying to blame the U.S. and Israel for the attack amid Israel\u2019s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It has launched missile attacks on Iraq and Syria. It then launched strikes on nuclear-armed Pakistan, which responded with its own strikes on Iran, further raising tensions in a region inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month that killed 95 people, a U.S. official said Thursday.
\nThe official, who was not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the U.S. was following its longstanding policy of a \u201cduty to warn\u201d other governments against potential lethal threats.<\/p>\n

The official did not detail how the U.S., which does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, conveyed the warning about its intelligence on ISIS-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, but noted that government officials “provide these warnings in part because we do not want to see innocent lives lost in terror attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iranian state media did not acknowledge the U.S. giving Tehran the information, and Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Jan. 3 attack on Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of Iran\u2019s capital, Tehran. The dual suicide bombing killed at least 95 people and wounded dozens of others attending a commemoration for the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s expeditionary Quds Force, who had been killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

In the time since, Iran has been trying to blame the U.S. and Israel for the attack amid Israel\u2019s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It has launched missile attacks on Iraq and Syria. It then launched strikes on nuclear-armed Pakistan, which responded with its own strikes on Iran, further raising tensions in a region inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.”<\/p>\n

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