At least 11 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards Wednesday in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
Posted on 02/16/2007 3:11:47 PM PST by Fred Nerks
TEHRAN, Feb. 14 — A car loaded with explosives blew up on Wednesday in front of a bus carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern city of Zahedan, killing at least 11 people and wounding 34 others, the state news media reported. Skip to next paragraph The New York Times The governor of Zahedan, Hassan Ali Nouri, told state-run television that the car exploded at 6:37 a.m. as the bus taking members of the Revolutionary Guards to work approached. Television news reports showed videotape of the mangled bus, with all its windows shattered. One official told the ISNA news agency that six people had been arrested. The explosion was the largest in this troubled region along the Afghan and Pakistani borders since last March, when an attack on a convoy in the same province, Sistan-Baluchistan, killed 22 officials. In December 2005, a car carrying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ambushed when he was on a visit in the same province. The attack, near the city of Zabol, killed one of his bodyguards and wounded another. Further details of that attack have not been disclosed. The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that a Baluchi group opposed to the government, the Jondollah Organization of Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday. Hossein Ali Shahriari, the representative from Zahedan in Parliament, said the attack had been carried out by “insurgents and smugglers who are led by the world imperialism,” a common reference to the United States and Britain. Iranian officials have repeatedly accused the United States and Britain of provoking ethnic unrest in Iran and of supporting opposition groups. Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, is home to many ethnic Baluchis, who are Sunni Muslims. A majority of Iranians are Shiites...
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At least 11 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards Wednesday in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
payback is a bitch.
sunnis? shiites? iraqis? Brits? Americans? We'll probably never know.
As long as the Revolutionary Guards keep dying, all is fine. Next time they should get some Mullahs.
I would hypothesize and say that this is the work of Al Quida. They are Sunni and the Iranians are Shia so no love is lost anyway. But by pricking the Revolutionary Guards noses they know they will overreact and blame the Jews, inflaming the Middle East that much more.
Very interesting, gives one hope.
Tempted to say:
Prayers for the Perps...
Only Capone kills like that.
Hmmmm....
I laughed so hard when I saw that picture my dogs got scared and ran out the door.
I love FR.
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS????? ;-)
The Slimes are greatly saddened.
Wouldn't that be sad?
Quite frankly I don't think our intelligence agencies are smart enough to pull anything like that off. But it would be juicy if the insurgent attacks stopped happening in Iraq because of the increased level of coalition activity and then suddenly a wave of insurgent violence started up in Iran.
There was another explosion in the same area today.
How many aircraft carrying Revolutionary Guard officers have gone down, hmmm? The mullah's have trouble in Baluchistan, Khuzestan and Kurdish areas, the Bakhtiaris are troublesome... The Iranian Nutjob made a whole lot of enemies in sunni Arab States when he threatened to close down the Straits of Homuz. How many enemies does he want?
I want to see something co-ordinated - attacks on the mullah regime from three, four, five regions at once!
No one cares about the French, because they don't care about anyone else.
More (older)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784561/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784503/posts
There are battles going on now in that city and Iran is blaming Americans and British for supporting Sunni rebels.
the numerous divisions within the country, their hatred of each other, the tribal factions, the numerous sects within islam will make Iran very difficult to hold together when the shiite hits the fan IMO. Here's hoping!
So would I if I were in their shoes! Anything but admit the rot is within. Furthermore how many sunni petrol exporting nations would be financially ruined if Nutjob started something and the Straits were closed?
I doubt if you need to lose any sleep over what 'American style' may or may not be. Islam, the cult of hate with its 73 sects of which only one will survive as the 'true islam' will take care of itself. Hopefully, they'll kill each other before they get to us.
I'm an aussie, if that's any excuse...please tell me, who is that an image of?
Yeah. All that. We might not be able to stop this even if we wanted to.
I gather that the vast majority of IRG are unreliable draftees, with only a few brigades of trustworthy fanatics. For this reason, the majority just stay in their barracks and are deluged with propaganda, with the few brigades are constantly on the move around the country, as muscle to suppress dissent.
This is why plane crashes in Iran often take out a plane full of IRG. And with such limited resources, any loyal IRG that get killed hurts the ruling mullahs very badly.
Days after Khomeini's return to Tehran, the Bazargan interim administration established the Pasdaran under a decree issued by Khomeini on May 5, 1979. The Pasdaran was intended to protect the Revolution and to assist the ruling clerics in the day-to-day enforcement of the new government's Islamic codes and morality. There were other, perhaps more important, reasons for establishing the Pasdaran. The Revolution needed to rely on a force of its own rather than borrowing the previous regime's tainted units. As one of the first revolutionary institutions, the Pasdaran helped legitimize the Revolution and gave the new regime an armed basis of support. Moreover, the establishment of the Pasdaran served notice to both the population and the regular armed forces that the Khomeini regime was quickly developing its own enforcement body. Thus, the Pasdaran, along with its political counterpart, Crusade for Reconstruction, brought a new order to Iran. In time, the Pasdaran would rival the police and the judiciary in terms of its functions. It would even challenge the performance of the regular armed forces on the battlefield.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/pasdaran.htm
Mossad?
......I don't think our intelligence agencies are smart enough .....
Perhaps you made an incorrect assumption. Perhaps it is not CIA but Special ops forces.
that 'assumption' arose in comment #17. I merely quoted from it in my reply.
What comes around Blows Around!
Pray for W and Our Troops
[singing] Kaboom, kaboom, ya-da-da-da-da-da, ya-da-da-da-da-da...
G Gordon Liddy
Good on ya Bloke!
Pray for W and Our Troops
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I get it now, thanks.
what do you call eleven dead psychotic islamist scu&bags?
an awfully good start.
WHAT HAPPEN?
hypnotic little number, that.
see #36
Well, yeah, that and...
SOMEBODY SET UP THEM THE BOMB.
(a tip of the hat to alouette)
Ongoing, update:
New bombing, then armed clashes, in Iran
Sunni group claims earlier bomb; Tehran says U.S. behind insurgency
Updated: 5:56 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran - A bomb exploded in southeastern Iran late Friday, near the site where an explosion this week killed 11 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and clashes broke out afterward between Iranian police and insurgents, Iranian news agencies reported.
“The sound of a bomb explosion was heard in one of Zahedan’s streets,” IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, reported. The report gave no further details, including whether there were casualties. The semiofficial Fars news agency said the explosion was at a school and was followed by clashes.
“The insurgents began shooting at people after the explosion. Clashes are continuing between police and the armed insurgents,” the Fars agency said.
kosher sausage?
Maybe it had a loose Gas Cap??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I'll bet Sadr is real glad he moved there...a reaction, perhaps?
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