[Al Arabiya] Several Iranian soldiers were killed in an kaboom that rocked a military base in the western province of Lorestan on Tuesday, Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam TV reported.The channel, quoting an unnamed military source, said that "some soldiers have been killed in the accidental blast" which took place in the Imam Ali military base, located outside the scenic provincial capital of Khorramabad.
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A blast at a military parade in late September killed 12 people and injured 80, in the city of Mahabad. Iranian authorities blamed it on "anti-revolutionary" gunnies backed by foreign enemies.
Days after that attack, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they had killed about 30 people who were behind it.
Analysts have said attacks could raise pressure on President Mahmoud
Short RoundAhmadinejad, whose government has been plagued by political infighting and economic woes linked in part to foreign sanctions imposed due to Iran's disputed nuclear program.
No group grabbed credit for the blast in Mahabad, which occurred during an annual ceremony for the Iranian armed forces to commemorate Iran's 8-year war with Iraq in the 1980s.
But several bands of Islamic bandidos hostile to the establishment are active in Iran, including Kurdish separatists in the northwest, Baluch gunnies in the southeast and some Arabs in the southwest.
The Sunni Mohammedan Jundollah bully boy group, which Iran says has links to al-Qaeda, is the most active. It claimed a double suicide kaboom on July 15 which killed 28 people, including Revolutionary Guards.
Last week, five Iranians, including four members of the security forces, were killed and nine injured when gunnies opened fire on a police patrol in the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province, the scene of frequent clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Iranian forces.