At least 11 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards Wednesday in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
Posted on 02/16/2007 3:11:47 PM PST by Fred Nerks
TEHRAN, Feb. 14 — A car loaded with explosives blew up on Wednesday in front of a bus carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern city of Zahedan, killing at least 11 people and wounding 34 others, the state news media reported. Skip to next paragraph The New York Times The governor of Zahedan, Hassan Ali Nouri, told state-run television that the car exploded at 6:37 a.m. as the bus taking members of the Revolutionary Guards to work approached. Television news reports showed videotape of the mangled bus, with all its windows shattered. One official told the ISNA news agency that six people had been arrested. The explosion was the largest in this troubled region along the Afghan and Pakistani borders since last March, when an attack on a convoy in the same province, Sistan-Baluchistan, killed 22 officials. In December 2005, a car carrying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ambushed when he was on a visit in the same province. The attack, near the city of Zabol, killed one of his bodyguards and wounded another. Further details of that attack have not been disclosed. The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that a Baluchi group opposed to the government, the Jondollah Organization of Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday. Hossein Ali Shahriari, the representative from Zahedan in Parliament, said the attack had been carried out by “insurgents and smugglers who are led by the world imperialism,” a common reference to the United States and Britain. Iranian officials have repeatedly accused the United States and Britain of provoking ethnic unrest in Iran and of supporting opposition groups. Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, is home to many ethnic Baluchis, who are Sunni Muslims. A majority of Iranians are Shiites...
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At least 11 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards Wednesday in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
payback is a bitch.
sunnis? shiites? iraqis? Brits? Americans? We'll probably never know.
As long as the Revolutionary Guards keep dying, all is fine. Next time they should get some Mullahs.
I would hypothesize and say that this is the work of Al Quida. They are Sunni and the Iranians are Shia so no love is lost anyway. But by pricking the Revolutionary Guards noses they know they will overreact and blame the Jews, inflaming the Middle East that much more.
Very interesting, gives one hope.
Tempted to say:
Prayers for the Perps...
Only Capone kills like that.
Hmmmm....
I laughed so hard when I saw that picture my dogs got scared and ran out the door.
I love FR.
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS????? ;-)
The Slimes are greatly saddened.
Wouldn't that be sad?
Quite frankly I don't think our intelligence agencies are smart enough to pull anything like that off. But it would be juicy if the insurgent attacks stopped happening in Iraq because of the increased level of coalition activity and then suddenly a wave of insurgent violence started up in Iran.
There was another explosion in the same area today.
How many aircraft carrying Revolutionary Guard officers have gone down, hmmm? The mullah's have trouble in Baluchistan, Khuzestan and Kurdish areas, the Bakhtiaris are troublesome... The Iranian Nutjob made a whole lot of enemies in sunni Arab States when he threatened to close down the Straits of Homuz. How many enemies does he want?
I want to see something co-ordinated - attacks on the mullah regime from three, four, five regions at once!
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