While extending the Islamic Republic of Iran’s condolences and solidarity with the victims’ families, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, stressed Iran condemned any terrorist attack on innocent Pakistani people of any ethnicity or religion and deemed it contrary to Islamic teachings and human values.
According to Pakistani government officials, a Taliban attack on a Shi’a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 20 people and injured more than 65 others on Friday.
During the attack, at least four suicide bombers, wearing security forces uniforms, hit the Imamiyah Mosque during Friday prayers. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, which according to one of their spokesman was in revenge for the execution of one of their members by the Pakistani government.
The group is also responsible for the December 16 attack on a school in Peshawar that left 150 people dead, mostly students.
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