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| Gunmen attack Iran presidentŽs election center |
| 2009-05-30 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Three people were injured Friday after gunmen on motorbikes attacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election campaign center in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, where a day before a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shiite mosque, which the Islamic republic accused the United States of orchestrating. "Three knife-wielding people on motorbikes stopped outside the center on Saadi Street, cursed, made threats and tore up billboards," Mohammad Reza Zahed Sheikhi, who heads Ahmadinejad's election office in Zahedan, told official news agency IRNA. The attack comes a day after a suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded 125 others in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Zahedan, in Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan. Earlier, the Iranian Jundullah (God's soldiers) opposition group declared its responsibility for Thursday's suicide bombing, a group spokesman told AlArabiya. Abdul Raouf al-Riji said that the blast targeted a meeting of the Iranian Basij forces, which are affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The meeting inside the mosque was aimed to coordinate election strategy. He added that Thursday's attack was a suicide bombing that was carried out by a group member called Abdul Khaleq al-Mulla. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Yeah, it wuz us. 'Cause no Sunni ever blowed up a Shia mosque without us forcin' 'em to. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-05-30 02:48 |