Targeting a park and a stadium showed, for another time, that terrorists and extremists are against all dimensions of human life and society regardless of the location or the class of the communities, said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said early on Monday.
The Iranian diplomat made the remarks in reaction to Friday terrorist attack in Baghdad and Sunday suicide blast in Lahore during which many innocent civilians were killed. Pakistani branch of Taliban claimed the responsibility for Lahore event while the ISIL described stadium bombing in Baghdad as the revenge of the militia after heavy losses in Iraq and Syria.
Sympathizing with the bereaved families of both tragic events, Jaberi Ansari voiced the official condolences of Iranian government and nation to the people and authorities of both neighboring countries.
The terrorist attacks across the globe underline the necessity to conduct international collective measures to counter the sinister phenomenon of terrorism and extremism, reiterated the Iranian diplomat.
A young ISIL member, allegedly attended a ceremony at the end of a football tournament in Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and detonated his suicide vest as local officials were handing out trophies to the players.
In another similar act of terror against innocent civilians, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of the Christian ceremony of Easter Sunday in a park in Pakistani Eastern city of Lahore late on Sunday.
The two event have claimed the lives of 73 civilians so far while the death toll is apt to upper numbers.
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