Tehran - Iran has summoned the Pakistani ambassador to
Tehran over the recent bombings in Zahedan in south-east Iran,
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Sunday.
11 people were killed and more than 30 injured after a bomb
planted in a car went off last Wednesday in Zahedan and hit a bus
belonging to the paramilitary revolutionary guards (IRGC).
The victims mainly belonged to the administrative staff of the
IRGC.
Also on Friday a percussion bomb exploded on a road in Zahedan
next to a girls' school and unfinished residential complexes without
causing any casualties.
The radical Sunni group Jundallah (God's Brigade), which claimed
responsibility for both attacks, is believed to have infiltrated Iran
from Pakistan, which borders Iran in the south-east.
The Iranian press has criticized Pakistan for becoming the
backyard for terrorists infiltrating Iranian soil.
The spokesman said in a press conference in Tehran that Iran and
Pakistan have agreed to form a committee for improving border
security.
Hosseini said that several suspects have been arrested in
connection to the bombings and according to their confessions,
'aliens' were involved in the incidents.
Tehran has accused the United States and Britain of using radical
Sunni groups like Jundullah for sowing discord between Iran's Muslim
Shiite majority and the Sunni minority.
Zahedan, located in the Sistan-Beluchistan province bordering
Afghanistan and Pakistan, is mainly a centre for drug-trafficking.
A large number of IRGC anti-narcotic forces are stationed in the
Sistan-Beluchistan province and frequently clash with not only local
but also Afghan and Pakistani drug traffickers who try to smuggle
drugs via Iran to European markets.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 
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