Dubai, December 16: Iran has squarely blamed Pakistan for two suicide bomb attacks outside a mosque in Chabahar which killed 39 people.
Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar told state television yesterday that the attackers had links to neighbouring Pakistan and that a probe was in progress.
”A group of terrorists who were trained in Pakistan carried out the bombings … we have informed Pakistani officials as well,” he said.
The bombings killed many children and women, who attended a religious ceremony, state television reported, adding that the death toll was expected to increase.
Jundallah, a Sunni rebel group, meanwhile said the attack was in retaliation for the execution of its leader Abdolmalek Rigi in June. Iran is majority Shiite.
”This operation was in revenge for the execution of the leader of the movement Abdolmalek (Rigi) and other martyrs of Jundallah who were savagely hanged,” the group said on its website.
It also blamed the United States and Israel for allegedly creating discord among Sunnis and Shiites by orchestrating such bombings.
–UNI