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.
“reports that it may have been up to 3 bombs”
starting to sound like the same guys who did the Oklahoma City Building.
A high ranking cleric named Ayatollah Anjeevi-nejad, a city official, is among the dead.
Where are you getting your info? Thanks for the updates.
Hope somebody inside Iran claims responsibility.
Iranian websites.
We’ll see who they blame it on.
Odds on favorite is that it was probably the regime itself.
Al-Qaida in Iran... Hmmm wonder but yet they were never in Iraq before we took out Saddam... Obama is a nut job.
“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”
The Iranians and many on the left attribute that attack to the C.I.A. working with Sunni groups in Iran.
So what did your mouse do???
I been getting a lot of double clicks of late, I’m pretty sure it isn’t me. :-)
Thanks for the explanation! Hmmm... well, it's not likely the Baha'is are behind this...
From what I’ve gleaned, there were three or four children accompanying their parents to this weekly meeting. The blast happened in the men’s section of the center - not the physical Mosque, but the cultural center attached to it.
Well praise allah for THAT! Innocent people mean nothing. The government is EVERYTHING!
(Coming soon to a government near you)
idk, MEK khalq will get the blame?
“well, it’s not likely the Baha’is are behind”
No, I agree
(according to a friend)... a better translation would be “God’s path seekers”
“A high ranking cleric named Ayatollah Anjeevi-nejad, a city official, is among the dead.
A possible target?”
possibly
The fact that the Iranian State press isn’t angrily denouncing and publicizing this many hours later suggests that they’re surprised by the act.
There are essentially only three seperate articles being distributed about this bombing - if Nutjob could think of a way to use this in his narrative, he would have, by now.
This signals that he doesn’t know who did it, and is paralyzed about addressing it.
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