According to the State broadcaster, Irib said dozens more people were wounded when the blasts hit a procession near the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque in the southern city of Kerman.
The perpetrators of the explosions remain unidentified, and no groups have immediately claimed responsibility. However, Arab separatists, Islamic State (IS), and other Sunni jihadist groups have previously acknowledged conducting lethal attacks on security forces and Shia shrines in the country.
Soleimani held a prominent position in Iran, regarded as the most influential figure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, until he died in a US drone strike.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the region after the deputy leader of the Iran-backed Palestinian group, Hamas, was killed in an apparent Israeli drone strike in Lebanon.
Footage broadcast by state TV showed hundreds of people had gathered on the eastern outskirts of the general’s hometown of Kerman when the two explosions took place.
According to Iranian media reports, the first explosion occurred at 14:50 local time (11:20 GMT), approximately 700m (2,300ft) from the Garden of Martyrs cemetery near the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque.
The second explosion took place about 15 minutes later, roughly 1km away from the cemetery.
The hardline Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, stated that “two bags carrying bombs” were seemingly detonated “by remote control”.Over 100 killed after bomb explodes near slain Iran general’s grave
A witness, quoted by the ISNA news agency, described the incident, stating, “We were walking towards the cemetery when a car suddenly stopped behind us, and a waste bin containing a bomb exploded. We only heard the sound of the explosion and saw people falling.”
State media cited the local emergency services department as saying 103 people had been killed and another 141 wounded by the blasts. Some of the wounded were in a critical condition, they added.
The Iranian Red Crescent said the dead included at least one paramedic who was dispatched to the scene of the first explosion and was hit by the second.
As commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ overseas operations arm, the Quds Force, Soleimani was an architect of Iranian policy across the region.
He was in charge of the Quds Force’s clandestine missions and its provision of guidance, funding, weapons, intelligence, and logistical support to allied governments and armed groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Then-US President Donald Trump, who ordered the 2020 assassination, described Soleimani as “the number-one terrorist anywhere in the world”.