Iran Vows Revenge Following Deadliest Terror Attack in Country’s Modern History

Tehran has pledged to deliver a “firm response” to the perpetrators of a double bombing that left at least 84 people dead—and scores more injured—in Iran’s southeastern city of Kerman on Jan. 3. “Iran’s enemies have once again inflicted disaster, martyring numerous people in Kerman,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in the immediate wake of the attack. The perpetrators would be “harshly dealt with,” Mr. Khamenei asserted, pledging that the “heinous” attack would draw a “firm response” from Iran. Hours earlier, a ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the slain commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was rocked by two massive explosions that occurred 10 minutes apart....