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Suicide bomber kills 29 in attack on Iran Guards
Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:58am EDT
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By Fredrik Dahl and Reza Derakhshi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and 23 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks on Iran's most powerful military institution.
The attack, in the country's turbulent southeast, came as Iranian officials were to meet Western counterparts for a second round of negotiations in Vienna on Monday intended to help resolve a standoff with the West about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
State media said a local rebel group called Jundollah (God's soldiers) claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on the elite Revolutionary Guards in recent years, which also wounded another 28 people at a meeting of tribal chiefs.
"Rigi's terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack," said state television, referring to Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundollah which is linked by some analysts to the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan.
The Guards themselves accused "foreign elements" linked to the United States of involvement. Tehran accuses the United States of backing Jundollah to create instability in the country, a charge that Washington denies.
State television also pointed the finger at Britain, another traditional foe of Iran.
The Revolutionary Guards is an elite force seen as fiercely loyal to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Its power and resources have increased in recent years. It handles security in sensitive border areas.
FOREIGN ELEMENTS
The bombing and allegations of foreign involvement risk overshadowing the nuclear talks in Vienna, between Iranian, U.S., French and Russian officials.
The attack is also likely to harden the resolve of the clerical and military establishment in confronting the opposition to a disputed election in the summer which saw the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said he would press ahead with efforts to reform the Islamic Republic despite a crackdown on protests after the June 12 presidential poll, his website said on Sunday.
The election plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The opposition says more than 70 people were killed as Revolutionary Guards and Islamic militia put down the protests that erupted after the poll.
Citing a witness, state television said Sunday's attack occurred when senior Revolutionary Guards officers attending a conference in the southeastern city of Sarbaz went to talk to a group of tribes people making baskets.
English-language Press TV said the suicide bomber was one of the tribesmen who "detonated his explosives strapped to his body."
Among those killed were the deputy head of the Guards' ground forces, General Nourali Shoushtari, and the Guards' commander in Sistan-Baluchestan province, General Rajabali Mohammadzadeh, Iranian media reported. Shoushtari was also a senior official of the Guards' elite Qods force. Continued...
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