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Iran arrests suspected mosque bombing accomplices |
2010-07-25 |
Translated by Rantburg ![]() He did not specify how many were in custody. "It is evident to us that the people who carried out the terrorist attack in Zahedan's Jamia mosque were linked to the Rigi group," Abdollahi said, referring to the Sunni hard boy group Jundollah, whose long time leader Abdolmalek Rigi was executed in Tehran last month. Jundollah claimed the July 15 twin bombing in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which it said targeted members of the elite Revolutionary Guards. Police said that the day after the twin bombing they killed six "criminals" in Sistan-Baluchestan province and arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances" in Zahedan. |
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