Posted on 12/17/2005 3:03:12 AM PST by F14 Pilot
Tehran, Iran -- One of the bodyguards of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents.
“At 6:50 pm on Thursday, the lead car in the presidential motorcade confronted armed bandits and trouble-makers on the Zabol-Saravan highway”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Saturday.
“In the ensuing armed clash, the driver of the vehicle, who was an indigenous member of the security services, and one of the president’s bodyguards died, while another bodyguard was wounded”, the newspaper, which was founded by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote.
Ahmadinejad traveled to the restive province, where ethnic Baluchis have been fighting for years for autonomy, on Wednesday and returned to Tehran on Friday afternoon. Tehran often refers to anti-government activists and political opponents of the Islamist regime as “bandits” and “trouble-makers”.
The newspaper report made no mention of Ahmadinejad’s whereabouts during the attack on his bodyguards’ vehicle, but Zabol residents reached by telephone said there were rumors in the town that the hard-line president himself was the target of the attack, which took place near Zabol.
“Many people have been rounded up for questioning after the attack and the authorities here were clearly shaken by the incident”, a Zabol resident told Iran Focus.
The Sunni Baluchis have faced years of religious and racial discrimination under Iran’s Shiite clergy-dominated government.
Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” on Wednesday, on the first day of his trip to the province.
“They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves”, he told a crowd in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan.
The presidential office and other government officials have refrained from making any comment on the ambush.
Iran’s state-controlled media have given much prominence to Ahmadinejad’s visit to the impoverished province.
Better luck next time.
Looks like Iran has more problems than our MSM likes to point out.
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PINGING YOU!
If the CIA were not so full of Slick Willy Dreamer Wing Nuts, we would be sending these Sunnis Barrett .50 cal. Sniper Rifles in UN WHO aid packages.
Too bad they missed these Iranian Fascist bubble heads, who need much more of their own medicine.
How long before he blames this on Israel?
Thanks for the link.
Intersting read, but as some people said in their comments, the clock is ticking.
Arm Iranians and finance their freedom movement NOW!
In seconds. 5..4..3..2..1
Won't happen ..because...
IT's Bush's Fault.
Thanks for the ping, ping me again when they get him, please.
Free the Baluchis!
(Maybe we should "loan" them a couple of TOW missles for the next time?)
Iran may have to pull all their insurgents home from Iraq, there is a president to protect.
I am unconvinced that this was due to rebels. This sounds way too similar to the burning of the Reichstag. It would just be too convienient for Ahmadinejad right now.
sure!
LOL! And just because you need killin' doesn't mean somebody's not out to get you.
Quite!
bttt
I bet this was the work of the 'Little Satan'.
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