Posted on 05/28/2009 10:55:49 AM PDT by Parmenio
A suicide attack on a mosque in southeastern Iran has killed at least 15 people, according to FRANCE 24's correspondent in the region.
State news agency IRNA reported that the bombing, in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan, wounded more than 50 people.
Shortly after the explosion security forces defused a second bomb near the mosque, the semi-official FARS news agency reported.
Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which shares a border with Pakistan and is the scene of frequent clashes between Iranian police and drug dealers and militants.
Campaigning is under way in Iran ahead of the June 12 presidential election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking a second term.
Moderate former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi, reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi and a conservative former head of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai will challenge Ahmadinejad in the upcoming presidential ballot.
“Jundallah”, which operates in Pakistani and Iranian Baluchistan is a Sunni terrorist group with ties to Al-Qaeda.
Don’t be surprised if the US admin finds a “common ground” with Iran here.
I figured they have been so keyed up on promises of killing Jews someone finally had to see if his state issued vest actually worked.
gee that’s terrible...
Let me guess...this is yet another one of Shi’a Islam’s “holiest sites”.
> Let me guess...this is yet another one of Shi’a
> Islam’s “holiest sites”.
No, no, no! Get with it!
These sites are only “holy” when Western military action in the vicinity accidentally damages them, not when MoHamHeads intentionally destroy them.
I wouldn't doubt it was government forces attacking a group of rebels defying Iranian Islamic hardliners.
Could be. Case in point the rebels are also islamic hardliners... Sunni ones.
We should send the CIA into eastern Iran. It is ripe.
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