TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday condemning terrorist attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday which resulted in the death of 23 people.

The ministry expressed condolences to the Somali government and nation over the heinous crime.
The Islamic Republic of Iran backs the legal government of Somalia and believes that solution to the chronic insurgency in the African country is “only possible through dialogue and peaceful approaches,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast explained in the statement.
A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing killed three members of Somalia’s UN-backed interim government and 20 others when he detonated at a medical school graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, reports said.
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government said Education Minister Abdullahi Wayel, Health Minister Qamar Aden and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow were among the dead after the bomber attacked Banadir University's medical school commencement, CNN said on its website