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Iran blames the west for suicide attacks
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| jester |
| quote: | The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah said it set off the bombs in the Islamic state on Thursday, telling Al Arabiya television in an e-mail it carried them out in retaliation for Iran's execution in June of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.
Jundollah says it fights for the rights of Iran's Sunni Muslim minority. The clerical leadership accuses its arch foe, the United States, of backing Jundollah in order to create instability in Iran. Washington denies the charge.
The powerful bombs exploded near the city of Zahedan's Grand Mosque scattering body parts around the holy site, and Jundollah said they were carried out by relatives of Rigi and were aimed at a Revolutionary Guards gathering.
"The group said the suicide attacks were carried out by Abdolbaset Rigi and Mohammad Rigi ... and warned of more operations to come," Dubai-based Al Arabiya said.
Senior lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi blamed Washington for the attacks, saying the United States should be held accountable for the "terrorist acts in Zahedan" because of its support for Jundollah, the official IRNA news agency said.
"In the two explosions in Zahedan at least 28 people were killed and over 169 were injured," Mansour Shakiba, head of the Medical School at Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Iran's deputy Interior Minister in charge of security, Ali Abdollahi, said "a number of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed and injured," the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran announced three days of public mourning in the province, IRNA said.
Iran is locked in a dispute with the United States and its allies over Tehran's nuclear programme, which the West says is designed to produce nuclear weapons and Iranian officials say aims to generate power.
"U.S. INVOLVED"
Predominantly Shi'ite Muslim Iran arrested Rigi in February, four months after Jundollah claimed responsibility for a bombing which killed dozens of people, including 15 members of the Guards. It was the deadliest attack in Iran since the 1980s.
Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province which shares a border with Pakistan. The province faces serious security problems and there are frequent clashes between police and drug dealers and bandits.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the attacks "in the strongest possible terms."
"This attack, along with the recent attacks in Uganda, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria, underscores the global community's need to work together to combat terrorist organizations that threaten the lives of innocent civilians all around the world," Clinton said in a statement.
Iran says Jundollah has links to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and in the past has accused Pakistan, Britain and the United States of backing Jundollah to create instability in southeast Iran.
All three countries have denied this, and Jundollah denies having any links with al Qaeda.
"Confessions of Abdolmalek Rigi prove that America, Israel and some European countries are directly involved in the attacks," said Guards official Yadollah Javadi, Fars reported.
"The enemies of our country try to create conflicts between Shi'ites and Sunnis."
In May 2009, a suicide bomber killed 30 people and wounded more than 120 in an attack on a mosque in Zahedan.
Iran is grappling with ethnic and religious tensions in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, where authorities have responded to attacks by Sunni rebels with a spate of hangings. Rights groups and the West have condemned the hangings.
Iran rejects allegations by rights groups that it discriminates against ethnic and religious minorities.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, editing by Peter Millership) |
(Courtesy of Reuters)
I am surprised Iran didn't blame Canada for this. Seeing Iran blames us of human rights violations.
How about they blame them selves for many decades of "iron-fist" rule. For this to happen. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| I'm not suggesting Iran is right to blame the west BUT the U.S. is known for poking fingers to countries in interest to create chaos/ regime change. In this case I wouldn’t be surprised, since they can’t really afford to go after them with military so why not make the people kill each other hoping that the regime will just collapse? |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
I'm not suggesting Iran is right to blame the west BUT the U.S. is known for poking fingers to countries in interest to create chaos/ regime change. In this case I wouldn’t be surprised, since they can’t really afford to go after them with military so why not make the people kill each other hoping that the regime will just collapse? |
Hold on so you are defending the iranian government? The Iranian people cannot defend themselves against their own government and could use the help. And if doing it covertly is the way it has to be done, so be it.
Shaya? Your thoughts? |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Hold on so you are defending the iranian government? The Iranian people cannot defend themselves against their own government and could use the help. And if doing it covertly is the way it has to be done, so be it. |
hmm where did I say I support the government? All I said was that the U.S. is know very well for playing politics within a country to cause chaos. Do we really want to have a god damn civil war in Iran? I dont think so. Causing people to kill eachother isnt going to help any oneone over there. Look at Iraq FFS.. |
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| Shaya007 |
they look so hot for their Heavenly Angels..lool!
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| exraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shaya007
they look so hot for their Heavenly Angels..lool!
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Israelis are not so far behind :)
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| Shaya007 |
| bahahahahahaahahaha |
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| TRANCEEEE |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Hold on so you are defending the iranian government? The Iranian people cannot defend themselves against their own government and could use the help. And if doing it covertly is the way it has to be done, so be it.
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US does not want to help anything... they have all the power and they like it just the way it is right now |
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| jad |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
I'm not suggesting Iran is right to blame the west BUT the U.S. is known for poking fingers to countries in interest to create chaos/ regime change. In this case I wouldn’t be surprised, since they can’t really afford to go after them with military so why not make the people kill each other hoping that the regime will just collapse? |
I agree with you on this. It reminds me of the Iran Contra scandal in the mid 80s for some reason.. |
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| Magnetonium |
Whenever there is a problem in Iran, Revolutionary Guards and the government always blaim the UK/USA/whatever - its become typical and expected. Thats the way authoritarian regimes deal with their internal problems, by shifting blame on external sources.
In reality, that low-scale insurgency in south-east Sunni-dominated Iranian province has been going for decades, ever since the Revolution and the changes that followed.
If anything, Iran should blaim Taliban and Pakistan for involvement - because that is a valid argument with good evidence to back it. Insurgents imitate Pakistani sectarian violence tactics and they attacked targets on the Pakistani side of the border, too (attacking Shiites). |
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| Nima |
Iran is one of the worst countries in the world as far as human rights violations go . Just ask Zahra Kazemi's family or the numerous amounts of innocent people held captive in notorious Evin prison . Yes Iran likes to blame everyone but their own so called Revolutionary Guard, Basij, Police or who ever is in charge of the country that particular day . Iran is a complex place that will never be truly understood, even by people that were born and raised there like myself and Shaya .
If there is to be regime change it has to happen within by a youth revolt. I personally blame religion and Islam for all of Irans downfalls......sorry I meant Islamic hardliners . Death to Khamenei :whip: |
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| Shaya007 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nima
Iran is one of the worst countries in the world as far as human rights violations go . Just ask Zahra Kazemi's family or the numerous amounts of innocent people held captive in notorious Evin prison . Yes Iran likes to blame everyone but their own so called Revolutionary Guard, Basij, Police or who ever is in charge of the country that particular day . Iran is a complex place that will never be truly understood, even by people that were born and raised there like myself and Shaya .
If there is to be regime change it has to happen within by a youth revolt. I personally blame religion and Islam for all of Irans downfalls......sorry I meant Islamic hardliners . Death to Khamenei :whip: |
one day... |
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