On Friday, the world shuddered with terror, as two bomb-blasts rocked Iran. After what occurred in Uganda and Pakistan, suicide bombings, the terribly familiar twin-attacks, killed over 26 people and injured 300 after striking a mosque. The Sunni militant group, Jundallah has claimed responsibility for these blasts. This comes a month after the execution of Jundallah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi in June following his arrest earlier.
The first blast took place at a checkpoint outside the Jamia mosque in the city of Zahedan. A few seconds later, came the second explosion. Speaking to Fars news agency, MP Hossein Ali Shahriari said, "The [first] attacker, dressed in women’s clothing, was trying to get in the mosque, but was prevented.” He added that by the time people came to help, the second bomb blew up. About three to four people were killed in the first attack, he said.
Muslim clerics have fallen on the US and Israel, calling it a American ploy to cause unrest in Iran. US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has condemned these blasts, calling for a concerted global approach to fight terrorism.
Though the Jundallah group, like this time, has unscrupulously targeted the Islamic Revolutionary Group in the past, there is a growing perception that this blast by a minority Sunni group was primarily targeted against the predominantly Shiah establishment in Iran.
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