“We remain deeply saddened by the high number of people killed in the explosions in Kerman, many of them children, and we condemn this act of terrorism,” the German Foreign Ministry wrote in X.

The people of Iran deserve a future in peace and security, it added.

The blasts took place on a road leading to the cemetery where Qassem Soleimani, former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, is buried.

At least 84 people were killed, according to Sayyed Mohammad Saberi, head of the city’s Emergency Organization.

Soleimani was killed on Jan. 3, 2020, in a U.S. drone strike outside Baghdad airport in Iraq.

In a separate statement, the ministry called on Germans to leave Lebanon as quickly as possible, as an escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border cannot be ruled out.

During the early hours of Tuesday morning, an Israeli drone assassinated Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, along with two commanders of his military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

Arouri was the highest-ranking Hamas leader killed by Israel since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on October 7.

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