ESCALATING

Iran’s Rouhani Lashes Out at U.S. Over Military Parade Attack

As the Revolutionary Guard vows “deadly and unforgettable vengeance.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani lashed out at the U.S. on Sunday as the country’s Revolutionary Guards vowed “deadly and unforgettable vengeance” for an attack that killed 25 people at a military parade Saturday. Just before leaving for the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Rouhani placed the blame for the attack in Ahvaz on an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the region. “All of those small mercenary countries that we see in this region are backed by America. It is Americans who instigate them and provide them with necessary means to commit these crimes,” he said. Iran also summoned diplomats from Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands on Sunday and accused them of harboring “members of the terrorist group” behind Saturday’s deadly violence. The Revolutionary Guard, which lost at least eight members in the attack, said it has “full knowledge” of the whereabouts of the “criminal terrorists’ leaders” and that they will soon face a “a deadly and unforgettable vengeance.”