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28 die as bombers hit Shiite mosque
Published Date: July 17, 2010
TEHRAN: Two rebel suicide bombers killed at least 28 people, including elite Revolutionary Guards, at a prominent Shiite Muslim mosque in southeast Iran, weeks after a Sunni rebel leader was hanged in the region. The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah said it set off the bombs in the Islamic state on Thursday, telling Al Arabiya television in an email it carried them out in retaliation for Iran's execution in June of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.
Jundollah says it fights for the rights of Iran's Sunni Muslim minority. The clerical leadership accuses its arch foe, the United States, of backing Jundollah in order to create instability in Iran. Washington denies the charge. The powerful bombs exploded near the city of Zahedan's Grand Mosque scattering body parts around the holy site, and Jundollah said they were carried out by relatives of Rigi and were aimed at a Revolutionary Guards gathering.
The group said the suicide attacks were carried out by Abdolbaset Rigi and Mohammad Rigi ... and warned of more operations to come," Dubai-based Al Arabiya said. Senior lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi blamed Washington for the attacks, saying the United States should be held accountable for the "terrorist acts in Zahedan" because of its support for Jundollah, the official IRNA news agency said.
In the two explosions in Zahedan at least 28 people were killed and over 169 were injured," Mansour Shakiba, head of the Medical School at Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the semi-official Mehr news agency. Iran's deputy Interior Minister in charge of security, Ali Abdollahi, said "a number of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed and injured," the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran announced three days of public mourning in the province, IRNA said. Iran is locked in a dispute with the United States and its allies over Tehran's nuclear program, which the West says is designed to produce nuclear weapons and Iranian officials say aims to generate power. Predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran arrested Rigi in February, four months after Jundollah claimed responsibility for a bombing which killed dozens of people, including 15 members of the Guards.
It was the deadliest attack in Iran since the 1980s. Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province which shares a border with Pakistan. The province faces serious security problems and there are frequent clashes between police and drug dealers and bandits. In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the attacks "in the strongest possible terms." "This attack, along with the recent attacks in Uganda, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria, underscores the global community's need to work together to combat terrorist organizations that threaten the lives of innocent civilians all around the world," Clinton said in a statement.
Iran says Jundollah has links to Sunni Islamist Al-Qaeda and in the past has accused Pakistan, Britain and the United States of backing Jundollah to create instability in southeast Iran. All three countries have denied this, and Jundollah denies having any links with Al-Qaeda. "Confessions of Abdolmalek Rigi prove that America, Israel and some European countries are directly involved in the attacks," said Guards official Yadollah Javadi, Fars reported. "The enemies of our country try to create conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis.
In May 2009, a suicide bomber killed 30 people and wounded more than 120 in an attack on a mosque in Zahedan. Iran is grappling with ethnic and religious tensions in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, where authorities have responded to attacks by Sunni rebels with a spate of hangings. Rights groups and the West have condemned the hangings. Iran rejects allegations by rights groups that it discriminates against ethnic and religious minorities. - Reuters
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