Iran on Saturday has strongly denounced a deadly attack the day before in neighboring Iraq, in which 16 Iranian pilgrims were killed

Iran on Saturday has strongly denounced a deadly attack the day before in neighboring Iraq, in which 16 Iranian pilgrims were killed, the official IRNA news agency said.
  
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi on Saturday described the attack as indiscriminate, unjust, and counter to all human and Islamic principles. “Iran condemns this indiscriminate terrorist act, which is contrary to Islamic and human values,” Araqchi said.

Sixteen Iranian pilgrims were martyred in a terrorist bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Muqdadiyah in Diyala Province, about 80 km northeast of the capital Baghdad, on Friday morning.

The blast, killing nearly 20 people overall, ripped through the pilgrims’ bus, which was heading for the holy city of Najaf. At least 45 others, many of them thought to be Iranians, were also wounded in the bombing.

The perpetrators of such terrorist attacks are either direct lackeys of the enemies of the Muslim community or have been “entrapped” in enemy plots, said the Iranian official. He emphasized that Iran reserves the right to take to task through legal channels those who sponsor and arm the terrorists, adding that Tehran will definitely follow the issue up in due time.