Breaking: Many Killed In Apparent Terrorist Bombing Of Iranian Mosque
Iranian Media Report From Press Tv. IRNA, the official state press agency, is so far ignoring the story.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A bomb explosion in a mosque in southern Iran Saturday killed several people, state television reported.
Television report said several people had been killed and an unspecified number were wounded in the bombing in the city of Shiraz, about 559 miles south of the capital Tehran.
The semi-official Fars news agency said eight people were killed and more than 66 injured. Fars said the death toll was expected to rise because some of the injured were in critical condition.
The official IRNA news agency said several people were injured but added that no official reports were yet available on deaths. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancies in the reports.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion. Local official Mohammad Reza Hadaegh told state TV the cause of the blast was under investigation.
Fars said the force of the explosion shook houses more than a half mile from the site of the bombing and ambulances and firefighters were rushing to the mosque.
Although bomb attacks are rare in Iran, the predominantly Shiite Muslim country has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out sporadic, sometimes deadly attacks in recent years. None have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
In February 2007, a car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, killing 11 of them and wounding more than 30 in southeastern Iran. A Sunni militant group that has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops claimed responsibility.
Some believe that group, known as Jundallah, is linked to al-Qaida. Jundallah, or God’s Brigade, has been waging a low-level insurgency in southeastern Iran.
Besides the violence in the southeast, ethnic Arab Sunni militants have been blamed for bombings in the western city of Ahvaz near the border of Iraq—including blasts in 2006 that killed nine people.
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Since this appears to be a somewhat “anti-government” mosque, it might just be the Mullahs doing the whole plausible deniability thing here.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pmComing out party for the invisible gay people, yet another wedding party gone bad or just a careless Imam outing his forbidden cigarette in the mosque’s traditional holy armoury? Inquiring infidel minds…
April 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pmHow do you tell the difference between a Church fire and a Mosque fire:
The secondary explosions.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:38 pmSpontaneous mosque combustion.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:58 pmMaybe the Iranian influence in Iraq will lead to an Iraqi influence in Iran….hopefully the mullah’s will pay the ultimate price here.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:22 pmI bet that Iranians are watching the free Iraqi’s build a future of greatness. The Iranian people will have a bright future if they follow Iraq into freedom.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pmIts all good.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pmDead muslims = progress towards peace on Earth.
Its about time Irans own product came back around on them.
Reap the whirlwind motherfuc*ers!
April 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pmGoodness.
Could the chickens be coming home to roost?
April 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pmI hope Little Hitler was attending.
April 12th, 2008 at 5:55 pm