Posted on 05/13/2008 12:00:20 PM PDT by AngryCapitolist
TEHRAN, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian judiciary said on Tuesday the 12 people arrested over a mosque bombing in the southern city of Shiraz in April have confessed they had been backed by the United States and Britain, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.
Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said the arrested "have confessed that they had links with the foreigners, especially those of the United States and the UK."
"The interference of foreigners, especially the United States and the UK, is clear and they have trained and supported the terrorists financially," Jamshidi added.
The blast on April 12 ripped through a packed mosque during a prayer sermon in Shiraz, killing 13 people and wounding at least 200 others.
Iran has blamed Western-backed dissidents for the bombing and threatened to take legal actions against Washington and London over the deadly blast.
Jamshidi said the Iranian people "knew from the beginning that the United States and Britain were supporting the terrorist groups."
Arrested together with bomb-making equipment and arms, the detainees had the intention to plant explosives in the crowded areas, he added.
"They will be severely punished and Iran will file lawsuit, domestically and internationally, against those governments who are directly or indirectly involved in this issue," Jamshidi said.
Shiraz? Hope they did not ruin the wine grapes.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Probably an oversight. Or they were concerned that further interrogation might render them unable to maintain the confessions they’d already given.
I doubt so.
America has been suffering a boomerang effect with 9/11 and 3/11, carried out by the same people they gave support during the cold war.
No more boomerangs, now Democracy, please.
Given the choice between being dipped in a vat of boiling oil and saying the Americans told me to do, I’d confess too.
If we’re going to start bombing things in Iran, I’d hope we could find something more important than a mosque.
Learned at the knee of the democrats; accuse your enemies of doing what you in fact are doing and thus turn any crime into a 'he said/she said"
somehow I think this is one of those forced confession deals. This is what oppressive regimes do.
Anyone who believes an Iranian...*deserves* to get their throat slit.
Sounds like a good start.
We have taught the world well.
Oh, this CAN’T Possibly be propaganda... after all, Iran wouldn’t use such things as waterboarding or ‘other tortures’..
I’d say let’s turn the capital of Iran into a glass parking lot.
‘Learned at the knee of the democrats; accuse your enemies of doing what you in fact are doing and thus turn any crime into a ‘he said/she said”’
Worse than that, it’s an effort to assert moral equality with the US. “See, the US uses terrorists too...they’re no better than us.”
Shameful, and a tactic straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Yeah, waterboarding’s temporary. No scars. Reminds me of Yakov Smirnoff: “In Russia we had warning shots: they shoot you as warning to the next guy”.
Colonel, USAFR
Normally, I'd just laugh at this. Then I remembered there is a long line of lawyers who would gladly take the case.
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