Bomb in Zahedan Iran

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TEHRAN -- A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing 18 people in a border city in southeast Iran where security forces and drug smugglers often clash, Iran's IRNA news agency said. The semi-official Fars News Agency said Jundollah (God's soldiers), a group Iran has linked to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility. The group has been blamed for past kidnappings and killings in the area. Fars and other agencies put the toll lower than the 18 cited by IRNA. An official in Zahedan, the city where the bomb struck, said the number of deaths was not yet clear. One aid worker was quoted as saying the carnage made it difficult to count bodies. The bomb was hidden in a car and exploded as the bus, belonging to a unit that transports employees of the Guards, passed by, IRNA reported. It was not clear if those killed were members of the Guards. "In this act 18 Zahedan citizens have been martyred. Rebels and those who create insecurity martyred these people in a terrorist act by laying a trap close to a bus," Qassim Rezai, a military commander, was quoted as saying by IRNA. Iran's student news agency ISNA said 11 were killed and 31 were injured in the incident that happened around 6.30 a.m. (3 a.m. British time).

SHADOWY GROUP Pictures from the scene showed crowds of people surrounding a mangled wreck of metal with only the back of the bus in a clearly recognisable shape. A spokesman in the Zahedan governor's office said he was still waiting for figures on the number killed. "Four people have been arrested for involvement with the bombing," he told Reuters without giving further details. Four people were in the car which appeared to be broken down on the road, Fars said. When the bus approached, the four fled on motorbikes parked nearby and the car exploded. "A group called Jundollah, under the leadership of Abdolmalek Rigi, the eastern rebels in the country, ... took responsibility for this terrorist act," Fars reported. Iran has said Jundollah, a shadowy Sunni Muslim group, was behind the murder of 12 people in a roadside attack in May, and other incidents. Officials previously said Rigi was a cell leader of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Iran. Zahedan is close to the Pakistani and Afghan borders in Sistan-Baluchistan province, which resembles a war zone, dotted with forts, trenches and machinegun posts. Sunni regions in Iran, Sistan-Baluchistan, say they suffer discrimination in the predominantly Shi'ite Islamic Republic. More than 3,300 Iranian security personnel have died in the region fighting drug traffickers since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

انفجار بمب در مسیر اتوبوس سپاه پاسداران در زاهدان
به گزارش خبرگزاری فرانسه از تهران، در اثر انفجار بمبی که در مسیر یک اتوبوس نظامی در شهر زاهدان کار گذاشته شده بود، دست کم 18 نفر به هلاکت رسیدند.اتوبوس متعلق به سپاه پاسداران بوده و به گفته یک فرمانده محلی، شماری زیادی نیز در این عملیات مجروح شدند.بمب داخل یک اتوموبیل پیکان جاسازی شده بود و در مسیر اتوبوس نیروهای سپاه پاسداران قرار گرفته بود

.به گفته شاهدان، پیش از انفجار مهاجمان نخست با تیراندازی اتوبوس را متوقف کرده بودند.یک فرمانده محلی از دستگیری یکی از مهاجمان خبر داده است.خبرگزاری فرانسه نوشت استان سیستان و بلوچستان اکنون ماهها است که صحنه درگیریهای مسلحانه میان نیروهای حکومتی و افراد مسلح وابسته به گروه عبدالمالک ریگی است.در آخرین گزارشی که از سوی تلویزیون جمهوری اسلامی پخش شد، تعداد کشته شدگان انفجار امروز زاهدان 11 نفر اعلام شده است.اطلاعیه سازمان جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) بنام خدا .جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) به استحضار عموم مردم بلوچستان و ایران میرساند که حدود ساعت 6:30 صبح امروز چهارشنبه 25 بهمن ماه 1385 دلاوران شاخه نظامی شهید احمد دهمرده با طراحی عملیاتی از رشته عملیاتهای اقتدار 2 توانستند در مسیرعبور یک دستگاه اتوبوس حامل مقامات بلند پایه سپاه پاسداران بمبی را منفجر نموده که در این عملیات بسیاری از این جنایتکاران رژیم به هلاکت رسیدند.

این عملیات در ادامه عملیاتی بود که چندی پیش بر اثر عمل ننمودن چاشنی نافرجام مانده بود .عملیات صبح امروز در پاسخ به اعدامهای اخیر در منطقه بلوچستان صورت گرفت و اخبار منتشر شده از رسانه های دروغ پراکنی رژیم مبنی بر دستگیری یکی از مبارزین در محل کذب محض می باشد.در ساعات آتی جزییات بیشتری از این عملیات برای هموطنان عزیز انتشار خواهد یافت .جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله

Revolutionary Guards Killed in Bomb Blast

February 14, 2007 Daily Telegraph Matthew Moore and Agencies
At least 11 people have been killed in an unprecedented bomb attack on a bus carrying Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. The blast happened in the southeast of the country, near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, where government troops often clash with drug smuggling gangs. A bomb hidden in a car was detonated as the bus taking soldiers from their housing compound in the city of Zahedan to a military base drew near. According to some reports armed motorcyclists shot at the bus to force it to stop, then fled after the explosion. It is not yet clear how many of the dead were from the Revolutionary Guards, a highly-trained and loyal force run separately from the Iranian army. Iranian television showed a large crowd gathering around the twisted wreckage of the bus at the scene of the explosion. Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been hit by a string of attacks and kidnappings blamed on a Sunni group called Jundallah (Allah's Brigade). The Revolutionary Guards are loyal to the Shia theocracy established in Iran after the 1979 revolution. A spokesman in the Zahedan governor's offices said that two people had been arrested in relation to the attack.