Posted on 07/26/2010 6:22:42 PM PDT by nuconvert
Late last week, two suicide bombings in southeastern Iran reduced a mosque to rubble, leaving 27 dead and nearly 300 injured. The explosions were the work of Jundollah—”Soldiers of Allah”—a rebel Sunni group opposed to the Shiite-controlled regime in Tehran.
The Islamic Republic has always accused the United States of being Jundollah’s paymaster. The leader of Tehran’s government-controlled Friday Prayer even charged the U.S. with masterminding the attacks: “Since the U.S. has lost face in the case of Shahram Amiri [the Iranian nuclear scientist who allegedly spied for the U.S. against Iran] and the reputation of its intelligence has also become questionable, they wanted to divert attention from their defeat and disgrace through this crime.”
The bombs sent a powerful message that Jundollah survived a major setback earlier this year when its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, was arrested and subsequently hanged on June 20. When the regime apprehended Rigi, the state media went out of their way to showcase the operation. Security teams surrounded a beaten Rigi with large, muscled balaclava-clad agents known as the “unknown soldiers of the Messianic Imam Mehdi” in an attempt to demonstrate the strength of the state against a feeble rebel on national television.
The twin explosions presented the opposite picture.
(Excerpt) Read more at planet-iran.com ...
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_ethnoreligious_distribution_2004.jpg
(Ethno-religious map of Iran, a useful reference)
Please note that Khuzestan in the SW is Arab, as is a large area next to the Strait of Hormuz. And in between them is the Bushehr nuclear reactor. Khuzestan has most of Iran’s oil production.
And Arabs are not ethnically Persians.
This is likely the Saudis and other Arabs, not the US.
No problem that I can see!
Until they are willing to shed their own blood in a much more substantial way - it's just PR in my mind.
Hope I'm wrong, but more people died fighting for American Indepence 200 years ago than Iran's "rebellion" can lay claim to.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I have a serious case of I want to be free - I just want it to be easy and won't put much in if it's not - going on in my mind.
You may be on to something there.
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