Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Pakistani charge d'affairs to Tehran over the deadly suicide bomb attack in the country.
Following the terrorist incident in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan- Baluchestan, Iran summoned Pakistani charge d'affairs in the absence of its ambassador to Tehran. In the meeting, Iran's Foreign Ministry official expressed his country's strong regret over the news that the terrorist elements have entered Iran using Pakistan territory, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Ask the Indians about how they feel in that regard ...
The Iranian official urged the Pakistani authorities to "strongly deal with the movement of the terrorist elements in the soil of Pakistan," the report said.
For his part, the Pakistani charge d'affairs condemned the Sunday terrorist attack in Iran and expressed his country's deep sympathy with Iranians over the terrorist attack.
Just as he did for the Indians ...
Stating that Pakistan itself is the victim of terrorism, he claimed his country's readiness to cooperate with the Islamic Republic to identify the terrorists and to fight them.
Early on Sunday, a deadly bomb attack occurred in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan near Iran's border with Pakistan, killing some 30 people, including a number of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, and wounded 30 others, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Sunni rebel group Jundallah (God's soldiers) has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack.
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The Iranian official urged the Pakistani authorities to "strongly deal with the movement of the terrorist elements in the soil of Pakistan," the report said.
and I thought irony was dead
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No way, it's living in sin with Anamonapia on deh isles of longerhorn - which I hear is near Galveston.
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VARIOUS > seems AHMADINEJAD has formally accused PAKISTAN not only being a US PUPPET/PROXY in the attack, but espec in HARBORING OR SHELTERING ALLEGED US TRAINED/SUPPOR, ANTI-IRAN GOVT. JUNDALLAH MILITANTS. MOUD = TEHRAN is demanding PAKIS stop suppor for The Jundallah + similar US-trained Group, stop obeying US Orders, + work to isolate and defeat the US-trained Groups???
BRITAIN > on its part is BLAMING AL QAEDA for the attack, claiming that AL QAEDA NOW HAS ACHIEVED CAPABILITIES FOR ISRAEL-MOSSAD STYLE
"PREEMPTIVE ATTACKS".
IOW, BRIT SCOPE = indir infers that AL QAEDA = RADICAL ISLAM is GETTING STRONGER, NOT WEAKER.
* WAFF > US AND UK ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN IRAN SUICIDE ATTACK ["Great Satan" USA + "Ally"/ former? "Little Satan" Britain].
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > [2008 Artic] SEYMOUR HERSCH: US TRAINING JUNDALLAH AND MEK GROUPS IN BOMBING PREPARATION FOR IRAN.
A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up at a meeting of senior military officers of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps in south-eastern Iran today, killing about 20 people and wounding another 40, news agencies said. The attack, the deadliest in Iran in recent years, occurred in the city of Pisheen, near the border with Pakistan in Sistan-Baluchestan province, Fars and ILNA news agencies said.
"A man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up inside the meeting," the official IRNA news agency said.
Iran's state broadcaster said the attack occurred at around 8am today (3.30pm AEDT) in front of a local gymnasium. Fars said the strike took place when officers from the Guards were preparing to stage a meeting between local leaders of Shiite and Sunni communities. Some local tribal heads were also among the slain, media reports said.
"In this terrorist act, General Nur-Ali Shushtari, deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces, General Mohammad-Zadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Sistan-Baluchestan province, the Guards' commander for the town of Iranshahr and the commander of the Amir al-Momenin unit died," the news agency reported.
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani confirmed the officers' death in an announcement to parliament which was broadcast on television.
"The goal of the terrorists is to disturb the security of the Sistan-Baluchestan province," he told parliament. "It shows they do not want to have economic progress in this region. But certainly the Guards will act with more force to establish security in the region."
Iran has previously accused shadowy Sunni group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) of launching regular attacks in the province, which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The mostly Shiite Sistan-Baluchestan is home to a sizeable Baluch minority which adheres to Sunni Islam.
Jundallah is strongly opposed to the Government of predominantly Shiite Iran.
Iranian officials have been reluctant to open full-scale military operations in the southeastern border zone, fearing it could become a hotspot for sectarian violence with the potential to draw in al-Qaida and Sunni militants from nearby Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Controlling the scrubland and arid hills along the southeastern borders is a huge challenge that has been out of Iran's reach. Drug traffickers ferry opium and other narcotics through the cross-border badlands—a key source of income for the Taliban in Afghanistan and the ethnic Baluchi tribes that straddle the three-nation region and include members of Jundallah. Iran has pleaded for more international help to cut off the drug routes and criminal gangs.
Iran also has accused Jundallah of receiving support from al-Qaida and the Taliban. "There is no evidence of outside help for Jundallah from wider militant networks," said Mustafa Alani, director of security and terrorism studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. "It's a homegrown group that moves across the borders within fellow Baluchi tribes. It is very hard to control the border."
In an attempt to boost security in the region, Iran in April put the Revolutionary Guard directly in control of the Sistan-Baluchistan Province in Iran's southeastern corner.
In Quetta, Pakistan, police official Akbar Sanjrani said Iran had closed at least one border crossing. He said Iranian authorities did not give a reason for blocking the route, but Sanjrani speculated it was related to the bombing.
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seems somewhat 'karmic' in a way i just cant put my finger on...
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Allah tells us:
"Wherever you are, death will overtake you, though you are in lofty towers, and if a benefit comes to them, they say: This is from Allah; and if a misfortune befalls them, they say: This is from you. Say: All is from Allah, but what is the matter with these people that they do not make approach to understanding what is told (them)?"
Mike
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MO is taliban
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up to 29 dead now: A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and 23 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks on Iran's most powerful military institution.
Fox just said 30, and the number is expected to go higher. Apparently Allah doesn't like the RG
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One hopes these two groups are very effective at killing each other.
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The RG leadership are all buddies of Nutjob, and theirs is not a large cult, so every time one of them gets taken down, it is a serious gut punch to his power. The RG are mostly draftees, with only a few hardcore brigades of brown shirts to force Nutjob's will on the country.
This means that they are often on the road, going from city to city, brutalizing then taking off for their next assignment.
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IRAN is appar blaming the BRITISH [ + US-ISRAEL] as being the mastermind(s) behind this attack - the Brits podt-attack were repor fingered almost "immediately" by Iranain state medias???
* ION WAFF > TALIBAN ASK THE SCO FOR HELP TO LIBERATE AFGHANISTAN.
Although, as you say, the IRG is blaming the west, it is quite possible that funding from the other side of the Persian Gulf (Saudis, Kuwait, Qatar) is behind this particular attack.
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But, if they're smart, they hire a local fanatic-nut to do the job, during which they are far away, sipping martinis in the Holiday Inn while watching ESPN international.
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Suicide bombing is a way of introducing ordnance to a target.
The moral issue is whether it's a military target, or innocent civilians to foment terror and political instability.
This was moral, presuming the suicide bomber was fully informed.
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TOPIX > IRAN IRGC VOWS CRUSHING RESPONSE FOR JUNDALLAH ATTACK. Top IRGC Commander claims that Jundallah Group will not be allowed to threaten the Iranian Nation any more.
Syria has transferred nearly a quarter of its long- and medium-range missile arsenal to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti al Jarida reported on Thursday. According to the report, security sources in Jerusalem told the paper that the missiles, now held by Hizbullah, could hit every part of Israel.
How many of those storage sites has Israel observed and programmed for accidental explosion, I wonder...
Iranian and Syrian officers were reportedly training the Hizbullah operatives in using the new missiles and in operating early warning systems intended to alert the group of Israeli jets.
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.
The Kuwaiti article comes days after Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev called on UN peacekeepers to investigate Monday night's apparent weapons cache blast in the home of a Hizbullah operative in Tayr Filsay, southern Lebanon. In a letter of complaint sent to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the Security Council, Le Luong Minh of Vietnam, Shalev said Israel has "considerable" reason to believe the house where the explosion took place served as an arms storage facility for Hizbullah.
Shalev also said that in the aftermath of the explosion, Hizbullah operatives sealed off the area and attempted to remove evidence.
Following the blast in Tyre, President Shimon Peres said that Hizbullah was turning Lebanon into a "powder keg," and the IDF released footage showing apparent arms transfer activity at the home.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, arrested after the disputed presidential election in June, has been freed on bail, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday.
"Maziar Bahari was freed from Evin prison on Saturday evening after paying bail worth three billion rials ($300,000)," the semi-official news agency ILNA reported, citing Tehran's prosecution office.
Bahari, who has been working for Newsweek magazine since 1998, was arrested on June 21 in Tehran while covering the election and post-election unrest. He was charged later with espionage, and could face execution if convicted.
Previously, a lawyer acting for Bahari said in July his client was accused of having acted against Iran's national security.
Canada has repeatedly asked for his immediate release.
Opposition leaders say the election was rigged to secure the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iranian authorities have denied the allegation.
The opposition says more than 70 people were killed in the unrest, more than double the official estimate.
Rights groups say thousands of people were detained after the vote. More than 100 people, including former senior officials, remain in jail.
Iran's embattled opposition leaders promised to press on with their campaign against the country's rulers, saying the use of force to crush the post-election protests will not silence their demands for democratic change.
The powerful statement of defiance on Friday from opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and former president Muhammad Khatami also sent a message to their supporters that the protest campaign triggered by the disputed June 12 presidential election still had energy and leadership though street demonstrations fizzled out months ago.A bloody crackdown and a mass trial of pro-reform figures that has so far produced three death sentences quelled the weeks of street protests that followed the vote. Since then, the opposition has been struggling to reinvigorate itself as Iran's government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cements its control.
Mousavi, who claims the election was stolen from him through massive vote fraud, met on Friday with Khatami, who began the drive for greater political and social freedoms in Iran during his 1997-2005 presidency. They discussed obstacles facing the reformists.
"The use of force and pressure won't force the Iranian nation to deviate one iota from the path it has chosen," said a statement posted after the meeting on Khatami's website. "And those loyal to ... Iran won't give up their ... patriotic responsibilities despite all problems and threats."
Security climate: The two leaders said a "security climate" imposed by hard-liners to try to silence the opposition has instead undermined people's trust in the ruling system and paved the way for those who want to change the regime. On Friday, a hard-line cleric sought to head off an attempt to reinvigorate the anti-government movement by warning against a planned opposition rally on November 4 that would coincide with annual state-sponsored demonstrations against the United States. The cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, also had an unusual warning for the security forces, telling them any soft treatment of those activists already in detention would be considered treason.
More than 100 people, including many prominent reformist political figures, have stood trial since August on charges of supporting the post-poll unrest and seeking to topple the ruling system through a "velvet revolution".
Some of the defendants, including a former vice president, confessed to fomenting the unrest, but the opposition condemned the trial as a "ridiculous show" and said the admissions were obtained under duress.
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Iran's Martyr Foundation said on Saturday it would declare Neda Agha-Soltan a martyr if it is proven that an enemy of the state caused the young woman's death during a protest rally after the June election.
What if the enemy of the state .. are the leaders of the state?
"The pictures seem to show that Neda Agha-Soltan's death was the result of a plot by opponents and the enemy," ILNA news agency quoted Masoud Zaribafan, head of the state-run foundation, as saying.
"If this is confirmed by the Intelligence Ministry ... her family must be somehow covered by the foundation," Zaribafan said.
The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans' Affairs provides facilities and financial help to families of those killed or wounded during the Iran-Iraq war of the 80s or who died for the cause of the Islamic republic. Neda emerged as an emblem of the political uprising in Iran after she was shot to death during a protest in Tehran against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Amateur videos of her bleeding to death posted on the Internet and broadcast across the world triggered an outcry over Iranian authorities' clampdown on the anti-Ahmadinejad protests.
Iranian police have claimed her death was staged.
Ahmadinejad has called for a probe into her death, accusing opposition groups and "enemies of misusing the situation politically and tarnishing the clean image of the Islamic republic".
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Syria has transferred nearly a quarter of its long- and medium-range missile arsenal to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti al Jarida reported on Thursday. According to the report, security sources in Jerusalem told the paper that the missiles, now held by Hizbullah, could hit every part of Israel.
Iran's embattled opposition leaders promised to press on with their campaign against the country's rulers, saying the use of force to crush the post-election protests will not silence their demands for democratic change.
Iran's Martyr Foundation said on Saturday it would declare Neda Agha-Soltan a martyr if it is proven that an enemy of the state caused the young woman's death during a protest rally after the June election.
