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Armed clashes reported in restive Iran province
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21 – Armed clashes took place between a group of people and agent’s of Iran’s State Security Forces in the town of Iran-Shahr, south-eastern Iran, a local security official announced. A freedom fighter member of the resistance patriot “local troublemaker” called Vahed was killed in the clashes, Brigadier General Mohammad Arab said. His comments were reported in Tuesday’s edition of the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami.

General Arab said that Vahed along with three other individuals were planning to carry out a road block in the village of Kheyrabad.

Iran-Shahr is situated in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan. At least 11 members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed and 31 others left injured last Wednesday when a bomb exploded next to their bus in the provincial capital of Zahedan.
I said in comments yesterday that this is the next step in things we need to encourage in Iran. Find ways to encourage the separatist movements without getting our fingerprints all over it (e.g., don't have our CIA guys fresh back from Italy in charge). The worst of the Mullahs and their thugs have to have unfortunate accidents. Stuff has to blow up: if the Bugtis can blow up pipelines in Pakistan, they can do it in Iran. We don't need to invade to bring the Mad Mullahs™ down.

Posted by: Steve White 2007-02-22
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