Sept. 3, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
News ID: 86254317
Need to pivot a wedding to a wake? Outsource to the US: Iran’s London Embassy

London, IRNA — The Iranian Embassy in London has written that the attack on a wedding ceremony in Iran’s Kuhestak is the most recent item on the long list of deadly attacks by the US and its allies on weddings in Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan, saying that if one wishes to turn a wedding into a funeral, they should “leave it to the US terrorist military.”

In a post on its X account on Thursday, the embassy said that the recent US military attack on a wedding ceremony in the city of Kuhestak in Sirik, Hormozgan Province, was part of a long history of deadly attacks by US forces and their allies on wedding ceremonies in various countries.
The embassy said, “If you want to turn a wedding into a funeral, leave it to the US terrorist military. They have a long track record of doing exactly that.

July 1, 2002: More than 100 killed in the bombing of a wedding in Kakarak village, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.
September 18, 2003: More than 5 killed and wounded in the bombing of a wedding in Fallujah, Iraq.
May 19, 2004: 42 killed in the bombing of a wedding in Bakar al-Dhib village, Anbar Province, Iraq.
October 8, 2004: 13 killed, including the groom, in the bombing of a wedding in Fallujah, Iraq.
July 6, 2008: 47 killed, including the bride, in the bombing of a wedding in Deh Bala, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
November 2008: 37 killed, including 23 children, in the bombing of a wedding in Wagh Baghtu, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
June 2012: 18 killed, including 9 children, in the bombing of a wedding in Logar Province, Afghanistan.
September 28, 2015: 131 women and children killed in the bombing of a wedding in Wahijah, Taiz, Yemen (by a US-backed coalition).
September 1, 2026: 70 killed or wounded in the bombing of a wedding in Kuhestak, Sirik, Hormozgan Province, Iran.”

It further underlined, “Stop war crimes, prosecute war criminals.”

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