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Blast kills 30 people in SE Iran
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-29 14:45
The mosque was partially destroyed by the blast and aid groups and medics rushed to the scene, Press TV said. In the past few years, Iran has often been hit by bombings and armed attacks in its southeastern provinces bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, which the authorities usually blamed on a Sunni rebel group called Jundallah. Iran also blamed the United States, Britain and some other Western countries behind these attacks and accused them of destabilizing the Islamic Republic, a charge denied by Washington and London. Clashes between Iranian security forces and drug smugglers were also frequent on the eastern border areas of Iran, which is located at the crossroad of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan, Pakistan to Europe.
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