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| Iran blames West, Israel for deadly bombing |
| 2010-07-18 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran blamed the West and Israel on Saturday for twin suicide bombings which killed at least 27 people, despite condemnation of the attack by the European Union, the United Nations and the United States. Iranian police, meanwhile, arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances" in the southeastern city of Zahedan where the bombers struck on Thursday, the Mehr news agency reported. "This blind terrorist act was carried out by the mercenaries of the world arrogance (the Western powers)," state television's website quoted Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi as saying. "The agents of this crime were trained and equipped beyond our borders and then came into Iran," Abdollahi said. "Those who planned this crime and equipped those who carried it out should know that they are responsible for this incident," he added. Two suicide bombers killed at least 28 people, including elite Revolutionary Guards, at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah said it set off the bombs on Thursday, telling Al Arabiya television in an email it had carried them out in retaliation for Iran's execution in June of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi. "The group said the suicide attacks were carried out by Abdolbaset Rigi and Mohammad Rigi ... and warned of more operations to come," Al Arabiya said. Jundollah says it fights for the rights of Iran's Sunni Muslim minority. Tehran has long charged that Washington has provided support to the group as part of efforts to destabilize the Islamic regime by fomenting unrest among ethnic minorities in sensitive border areas. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The IRGC is repor warning the US will suffer "FALLOUT" due its alleged or perceived role in the Zanedan suicide bombings. "FALLOUT" > IMO only, the IRGC is trying hard NOT to say the US will suffer some kind of NOT-RIGHT-AWAY-BUT-ITS-COMING NUKE-WMD RETALIATORY TERROR STRIKE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-18 22:41 |