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Clashes Reported In Iranian City
BBC ^ | 2-16-2007

Posted on 02/16/2007 3:52:29 PM PST by blam

Clashes reported in Iranian city

Clashes between armed militants and police have erupted in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, state media have reported.

Police sealed off the area and exchanged fire with the attackers after a bomb went off, Irna news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying.

It comes two days after a car bomb in Zahedan killed 11 Revolutionary Guards.

A hardline Sunni group, Jundallah, said it carried out Wednesday's attack.

Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.

'Percussion bomb'

The explosion and clashes took place just hours after the funerals for the 11 Revolutionary Guards.

The governor of Zahedan, Hassan ali Nouri, told Fars news agency that the explosion was caused by a percussion bomb - a device which produces a large bang but causes little damage.

Wednesday's attack destroyed a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards

Provincial police commander Gen Mohammad Ghaffari told Fars that 68 people had been arrested over Wednesday's bombing, including three who are suspected of having carried out the attack.

"The gang has been ordered by some foreign states to plant bombs in specific places and escape the country simultaneously," Gen Ghaffari said.

He added that police had found a number of weapons and explosives in a house "where members of the terrorist group Jundallah were getting prepared for another operation".

Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It has a substantial Sunni Islam Baluch community.

The city has been the focus of low-level unrest, with several security force members being killed in the last two months.

Police have sometimes clashed with gangs transporting opium from Afghanistan.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clashes; iran; militants; zahedan
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1 posted on 02/16/2007 3:52:31 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

I hope no civilized human beings were hurt.


2 posted on 02/16/2007 3:53:33 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: blam
ranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.

Oh please let it be true!
3 posted on 02/16/2007 3:54:39 PM PST by xmission (Dont isn't a strategy, Freedom isn't Free, Dems encourage our enemy,)
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To: blam

wanna play with some fire, strawman?


4 posted on 02/16/2007 3:54:40 PM PST by Williams
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To: blam
Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels

That is just as ludicrous as Iran supporting the Shi'ite thug army.

5 posted on 02/16/2007 3:54:58 PM PST by RightWhale (300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
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To: blam

I hope we are behind this!


6 posted on 02/16/2007 3:56:29 PM PST by demsux
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Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.

We can only hope ...

7 posted on 02/16/2007 3:56:54 PM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: blam

I don't have any particular sympathy for Sunni Baluchis, but as long as they give the Iranian Regime hell and continue to kill the "elite" revolutionary guards, I will root for the Baluchis. Now if the Kurds and Arabs in Iran, and all other political and ethnic groups which are being opressed, stand up and fight, the days of the Mullahs might be over sooner than we thought.


8 posted on 02/16/2007 3:58:14 PM PST by SolidWood (Attack Iran NOW!)
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To: demsux

If Congress so much as suspects that Bush is behind this, they'll impeach him in a second.


9 posted on 02/16/2007 3:58:29 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: John Jorsett

Boy, that Pakistan sure is a hotbed "terrorists" on both sides.

One man's freedomfighter is another's terrorist.

May the best men win. (No offense intended to women)


10 posted on 02/16/2007 4:01:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: samadams2000
I hope no civilized human beings were hurt.

No worries, they were probably all Muslim...

11 posted on 02/16/2007 4:01:36 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: Brilliant

I wasn't talking about Bush...I meant Rove


12 posted on 02/16/2007 4:01:39 PM PST by demsux
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The media is totally ignoring everything but anti-Bush rants and actions.

There is a lot of good war news that has been buried by the presstitutes.

13 posted on 02/16/2007 4:03:28 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Brilliant

Yep, wouldn't want anything to happen in Uncle Sam's best interest.


14 posted on 02/16/2007 4:08:26 PM PST by xmission (Dont isn't a strategy, Freedom isn't Free, Dems encourage our enemy,)
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To: xmission

We wouldn't be giving them percussion
bombs, nor telling them to blow up
schools.


15 posted on 02/16/2007 4:13:25 PM PST by NickatNite2003 (From the Man from Hope" to the wife who snarls "Abandon All Hope!")
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"The gang has been ordered by some foreign states to plant bombs in specific places and escape the country simultaneously,"

Wonder who?

16 posted on 02/16/2007 4:13:35 PM PST by Dog
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Pakistan is my guess.


17 posted on 02/16/2007 4:17:25 PM PST by RightWhale (300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
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To: blam
Not to jump to conclusions, but, if the economy is failing and the Mullahs feel threatened, this could be a "Reichstag" move on their part.
18 posted on 02/16/2007 4:23:32 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (I want my next President to have Balls! (Figuratively or literally depending on who is running))
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To: Bringbackthedraft

You may have to enlighten me... Generate support by feigning attack?


19 posted on 02/16/2007 4:27:17 PM PST by xmission (Dont isn't a strategy, Freedom isn't Free, Dems encourage our enemy,)
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To: blam
Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.

Tehehehehehehhe.........

20 posted on 02/16/2007 4:31:52 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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