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Tehran, Feb 18: Iranian security forces arrested severalsuspects after a bomb explosion in the southeast of the country, thesemi-official Fars news agency said today.
Police and insurgents clashed after the explosion at a school inthe city of Zahedan yesterday. The blast caused no casualties, theagency had said.
''Some people suspected of being behind the Friday bombing have been arrested,'' a local military official told Fars.
''The armed bandits, in their new crime, exploded a percussionbomb and fled the scene,'' Zahedan governor Hassanali Nouri was quotedby Fars as saying.
He linked the bomb to the ''massive participation of people in the funeral of victims of Wednesday's terrorist act''.
A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by Iran's eliteRevolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people andwounding 31 others.
Responsibility for that attack was claimed by a shadowy Sunnigroup, Jundallah (God's soldiers), which Iran has said is linked toOsama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Tehran has blamed Jundallah forpast killings in the area bordering Pakistan.
Saturday Trial
It was unclear if the same group was behind theblast in Zahedan. Fars said that five arrested suspects accused ofWednesday's bombing had been put on trial today.
''The court reviewed the case of one of the accused people.
The judge will issue the verdict soon,'' it said.
Iran has accused Britain and the United States of supportingethnic minority rebels operating in sensitive border areas in anattempt to destabilize the country.
''International organisations can send their representatives toinvestigate the documents showing involvement of America and Britain inthe blasts,'' Fars quoted Soltanali Mir, a senior local official, assaying.
The United States has accused Iranian groups of involvement in thewar in Iraq. Iranian officials accuse the United States of trying tocreate a crisis in the Islamic state through ethnic divisions.
''Explosive devices and arsenals used in Zahedan's Wednesday blast are American-made,'' Mir said.
The upsurge in unrest in Sistan-Baluchestan follows violence inIran's oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan, which has aminority Arab population.
The United States accuses Iran of wanting to build nuclearweapons. Tehran insists its atomic work is aimed only at producingnuclear energy.
Reuters
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Police and insurgents clashed after the explosion at a school inthe city of Zahedan yesterday. The blast caused no casualties, theagency had said.
''Some people suspected of being behind the Friday bombing have been arrested,'' a local military official told Fars.
''The armed bandits, in their new crime, exploded a percussionbomb and fled the scene,'' Zahedan governor Hassanali Nouri was quotedby Fars as saying.
He linked the bomb to the ''massive participation of people in the funeral of victims of Wednesday's terrorist act''.
A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by Iran's eliteRevolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people andwounding 31 others.
Responsibility for that attack was claimed by a shadowy Sunnigroup, Jundallah (God's soldiers), which Iran has said is linked toOsama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Tehran has blamed Jundallah forpast killings in the area bordering Pakistan.
Saturday Trial
It was unclear if the same group was behind theblast in Zahedan. Fars said that five arrested suspects accused ofWednesday's bombing had been put on trial today.
''The court reviewed the case of one of the accused people.
The judge will issue the verdict soon,'' it said.
Iran has accused Britain and the United States of supportingethnic minority rebels operating in sensitive border areas in anattempt to destabilize the country.
''International organisations can send their representatives toinvestigate the documents showing involvement of America and Britain inthe blasts,'' Fars quoted Soltanali Mir, a senior local official, assaying.
The United States has accused Iranian groups of involvement in thewar in Iraq. Iranian officials accuse the United States of trying tocreate a crisis in the Islamic state through ethnic divisions.
''Explosive devices and arsenals used in Zahedan's Wednesday blast are American-made,'' Mir said.
The upsurge in unrest in Sistan-Baluchestan follows violence inIran's oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan, which has aminority Arab population.
The United States accuses Iran of wanting to build nuclearweapons. Tehran insists its atomic work is aimed only at producingnuclear energy.
Reuters
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