Two Bomb Blasts Hit Mosque in South-Eastern Iran

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IRNA Reports Two Bomb Blasts Hit South-Eastern Iran (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/irna-reports-two-bomb-blasts-hit-south-eastern-iran#comments)



Shahid and a number of explosions wounded at Zahedan survived.

Zahedan - two fairly awesome blast Thursday occurred in front of mosque in Zahedan, some injured and survived, Shahid said.

Deputy security - police Sistan and Baluchistan with confirmed the incident said: Amdadrsan factors and have the emergency scene.

"Jalal traveler" in dialogue with IRNA reporter added: still possible to declare the number of martyrs and injured in this incident and the details of the incident is not possible explosion of research in this field are aware.

According to IRNA, as the celebration of birth of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) and Hazrat Abolfazl (AS) of the blast occurred.

Explosion of the first 21 hours and 20 minutes in place at the entrance to the mosque and from the second explosion occurred a few minutes against the mosque.

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Russia, Iran to draft roadmap for energy cooperation (http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15317235&PageNum=0)


14.07.2010, 12.13

MOSCOW, July 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and Iranian energy ministries have signed a joint statement expanding the two countries’ business cooperation in energy.

The document envisions the development of a roadmap for promising projects in the gas and oil sector.

Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Iranian Petroleum Minister Masud Mir-Kazemi put their signatures to the document.

The two countries announced their intention “to study opportunities for establishing a joint bank to finance oil, gas and petrochemical projects.”

The document also stipulates crude sales at the two countries’ oil exchanges. A joint venture can be created to boost cooperation.

The parties agreed to consider an opportunity to draft a comprehensive intergovernmental agreement on energy before the end of the year in order to create favourable economic conditions for companies’ operation on the two countries’ territories.

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Suicide bombing near mosque kills 21 (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suicide-bombing-near-mosque-kills-21-2027714.html)

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At least 21 people, some of them Revolutionary Guards, were killed and 100 more were injured in two suicide bombings in Iran last night.

The bombings were carried out near the Grand Mosque in the city of Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan-Baluchestan province which borders Pakistan.

Jundollah, a rebel Sunni muslim group, claimed responsibility for the slaughter in an email to the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television station.

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Jundullah had previously documented ties to the CIA.

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'West, Israel linked to SE Iran blasts' (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=134983&sectionid=351020101)


A ranking official with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has implicated "the US, Israel and some European countries" in the deadly blasts in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan.

Yadollah Javani, the head of IRGC's political bureau, said late Thursday that the latest terrorist attack in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan points to the involvement of terrorist groups under the auspices of the United States, Israel and some Western countries, which seek sectarian division, Fars news agency reported.

Two explosions in the front of Zahedan's Grand Mosque on Thursday left more than 20 martyrs and over 100 injured.

The first explosion occurred at 9:20 p.m. local time (1650 GMT) in front of the city's Grand Mosque, and was followed by a second blast within minutes.

"The enemy seeks out division between Shia and Sunni Muslims in order to create chaos in the country," Javani noted.

"One could not doubt the involvement of secret foreign services in the efforts to generate tension amongst Muslims," he further explained.

The Iranian official also noted that confessions made by Abdolmalek Rigi, the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group's ringleader, before his execution last month, unveiled widespread US support for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic.

"Rigi's confessions prove that the US, Zionists and some European countries are directly linked with the Zahedan blasts, because he had confessed that the US wants bomb attacks to be carried out across Iran," he said.

After Rigi's execution, Jundallah was effectively disbanded and experts say that the group is highly unlikely to have carried out the latest blasts.

It is widely believed that hard-line Wahabis and Salafis trained by the CIA in Pakistan are the main elements behind the bombings.