SOLYMONE BLOG: SOILDERS OF GOD CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRAN'S SUICIDE BLAST, KILLING 35

SOILDERS OF GOD CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRAN'S SUICIDE BLAST, KILLING 35

Iran has promised a swift and crushing response to a suicide attack in the country's Sistan-Baluchestan province that killed at least 35 people, including 11 Revolutionary Guards commanders.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said on Sunday that those behind the bombing in the city of Pisheen would be "seriously dealt with".
According to Iranian state media, a Sunni group called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, claimed responsibility for the attack.
But Tehran has also indicated it believes foreign elements were involved in the attack, the deadliest in Iran in recent years.
"We consider the recent terrorist attack to be the result of US action. This is the sign of America's animosity against our country," Ali Larijani, Iran's parliamentary speaker, said.
Mohammad Marandi, an assistant professor at the University of Tehran, told Al Jazeera the attack could further damage Iran's relations with the US.
"I think the greatest blow [from this attack] is to any Iranian trust with regards to the Americans," he told Al Jazeera.
"On the one hand, the Americans are talking about rapprochement and building a new future, yet at the same time we see the Americans supporting groups in [Iran's] Kurdish regions as well as in Sistan-Baluchestan."
But Washington has denied involvement with the group, which it has labelled as a "terrorist" organisation, and condemned the attack.
Tehran has also suggested that Saudi Arabia and Britain have supported Jundallah to stir up trouble in the border area and have linked the group to al-Qaeda.
Majid Tafreshi, an Iranian researcher at University College London who specialises in ethnic and religious minorities, said there were clues as to the involvement of Western nations.

SOILDERS OF GOD CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRAN'S SUICIDE BLAST, KILLING 35

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