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.
If only things in Iran were that easy to figure out and explain.
It’s 5am there. We’ll see what they say in a few hrs.
When this first broke, I speculated that possibly a mullah may have been in attendance at the speech by this oppressive cleric.
You know that all kinds of eyes were watching mullahs scramble back up into their penthouses when this happened.
Taking a headcount and status check on 86 of them takes time, if you are suspicious of your comm channels. This may have been an extraordinary intel gathering event, regardless of the culprit.
I think something more interesting...Iran’s chickens are coming home to roost. I’ll bet some Iraqi Sunnis or Kurds have decided to pay the Iranians back in kind for all the mayhem and chaos Iran played a role in.
Well, duh.
Thanks for that pix. Wonder what old Cyrus would have to say about these times.
That's the most specific "about" I've seen.
Islam’s war against the West has distracted them from their war against each other. What sick, sick people.
PS: Welcome to FR
Reports from regime are saying that the reported dead cleric is ok, and that the explosion was a result of left over ordinance from a war week memorial celebration
Right, somebody accidentally ashed on an ordnance heap.
This means they don’t know who did it.
Your scenario is more than likely true. Mine was just more fun at the moment.
> btw - rahpourane vesal means those who want to die to see God
I guess they got what they wanted, ay. Satisfaction guaranteed, no complaints then.
LOL actually, I am an old timer but couldn’t resist the new screen name after the fool Obama decided that it was ok to be a racist toward White People. Hopefully this most dangerous man loses the nomination and then I can toss it.
Remember according to Michelle Obama...”Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions...”
and he will probably demand that we give up our guns and demand that we give up our Freedom...
and what if we don’t want to Michelle will we be put away for the good of the country?
How ya doin, FRiend?
That was my first impression also, as well as why hasn’t this happened more frequently?
Stalin and Mao also believed in putting people to work.
So far, so good. The dissertation is nearing its end. How are you doing?
It’s just good to see you’re here, and good to connect with you. I’m doin’ pretty well, considering all the fried chickens I-bin eatin’! =)
Work accident.
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