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Iraqi soldiers walks past a defaced mural of executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 11. The Washington Post has said that recent violence in Basra has convinced the administration of President George W. Bush that Iran and not Al-Qaeda is now the primary threat to US interests in Iraq. (AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
The limestone tomb at Pasargadae of King Cyrus the Great, near the city of Shiraz, 1000 kms south of Tehran. Eight people were killed and 66 wounded Saturday by a bomb blast at a mosque in Iran's southern city of Shiraz, in an unprecedented strike on a non-border urban centre, officials said. (AFP/File)
Well, duh.