Posted on 04/12/2008 1:24:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TEHRAN, Iran - A bomb explosion in a mosque in southern Iran Saturday killed several people, state television reported.
Television report said several people had been killed and an unspecified number were wounded in the bombing in the city of Shiraz, about 559 miles south of the capital Tehran.
The semi-official Fars news agency said eight people were killed and more than 66 injured. Fars said the death toll was expected to rise because some of the injured were in critical condition.
The official IRNA news agency said several people were injured but added that no official reports were yet available on deaths. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancies in the reports.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion. Local official Mohammad Reza Hadaegh told state TV the cause of the blast was under investigation.
Fars said the force of the explosion shook houses more than a half mile from the site of the bombing and ambulances and firefighters were rushing to the mosque.
Although bomb attacks are rare in Iran, the predominantly Shiite Muslim country has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out sporadic, sometimes deadly attacks in recent years. None have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
In February 2007, a car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, killing 11 of them and wounding more than 30 in southeastern Iran. A Sunni militant group that has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops claimed responsibility.
Some believe that group, known as Jundallah, is linked to al-Qaida. Jundallah, or God's Brigade, has been waging a low-level insurgency in southeastern Iran.
Besides the violence in the southeast, ethnic Arab Sunni militants have been blamed for bombings in the western city of Ahvaz near the border of Iraq — including blasts in 2006 that killed nine people.
Bomb making class gone wrong?
According to BBC...
“Fars said the explosion occurred at around 2100 (1630 GMT) and could be heard a mile (1.5km) away. The Irna news agency said it broke the windows of nearby houses.
Most of those inside the religious centre were young boys and girls affiliated to the Rahpoyan-e Vesal Association, which “holds weekly meetings every Saturday regarding misguided groups, including Wahhabis and Baha’is”, Fars added.”
btw - rahpourane vesal means those who want to die to see God
That, or somebody blowed a weapons cache..
Damn,, Thanks!
Thanks!
I changed my batteries on muh mouse, here’s hoping it’s haPPy now..
You’re welcome, NormsRevenge. Thanks for letting us know by sending us an abuse report. :-)
reports that it may have been up to 3 bombs
Although bomb attacks are rare in Iran, the predominantly Shiite Muslim country has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out sporadic, sometimes deadly attacks in recent years. None have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
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None have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
Well then, we’re either not working with the right folks or the money we have been sending to assist behind the scenes support “insurgencies” has been pretty much wasted or who knows.. they don’t call it a black budget for nuthin’ ..
All the credit goes to my mouse.. :-}
We’ll see ya at the Saturday Night race tonight. :-)
I think most of the bombings can be traced back to the regime itself, as this one may end up too.
Other localized bombings have been by small numbers of ethnic groups far from Tehran.
Already posted here :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000623/posts
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Iraqi soldiers walks past a defaced mural of executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 11. The Washington Post has said that recent violence in Basra has convinced the administration of President George W. Bush that Iran and not Al-Qaeda is now the primary threat to US interests in Iraq. (AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
The limestone tomb at Pasargadae of King Cyrus the Great, near the city of Shiraz, 1000 kms south of Tehran. Eight people were killed and 66 wounded Saturday by a bomb blast at a mosque in Iran's southern city of Shiraz, in an unprecedented strike on a non-border urban centre, officials said. (AFP/File)
Thanks!
I had heard a radio report on the way home and did a search for exact title, didn’t see the thread from Reuters.
reporting 105 injured now
3 bombs , huh? damn..
Bomb making class gone wrong?
Beat me to it!
bttt
“btw - rahpourane vesal means those who want to die to see God”
but, are they for or against it?
Or is the answer obvious?
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