@@ Iranian mourners vent anger at Britain - "Death to Britain" @@
Arash
October 17, 2005
Iranian mourners vent anger at Britain over blasts
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Demonstrators are seen in front of the British Embassy in Tehran October 17, 2005.
Tehran -- Thousands of Iranians vented their anger at Britain on Monday at the
funerals of six people killed in weekend bombings which Iran has blamed on London.
State television showed mourners chanting "Death to Britain" as they carried the
coffins of those killed in Saturday's twin blasts through the streets of the
southwestern city of Ahvaz, where the attacks occurred.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won June elections pledging a tougher foreign
policy and a crackdown on corruption, said on Sunday Iran was "very suspicious about
the role of British forces" in the bombings.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings and local government officials
denied reports that one suspect had been arrested and confessed to receiving training
from the UK.
"They might think that by doing such things we will forget about (our pursuit of)
nuclear energy", an unidentified woman told state television in Ahvaz.
"But let me tell them that we will follow (the example of) these martyrs", she said.
Men beat their chests in grief and shouted "God is Greatest" at the funeral
procession.
BRITISH ACCENT
The homemade bombs were left in rubbish bins outside a busy shopping mall and
detonated three minutes apart, wounding almost 100 people and damaging several cars
and shop fronts.
Brigadier General Mohsen Kazemeini, Revolutionary Guards commander of south Iran,
said the blasts bore the hallmarks of Ahvaz bombings in June that killed four people.
Security forces have rounded up five cells of opposition groups involved in those
attacks and earlier disturbances who had confessed to "receiving support, equipment
and terrorist training", by British forces in Iraq, he told Fars newspaper.
He said all those under arrest would be tried and executed.
Hatred of Britain runs deep in Iran because of London's long history of terrorism and
mass-murder in Iran, and the British involvement in pivotal events such as plunder of
trillions of dollars worth oil, annexation of Iranian provinces of Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and Bahrain, occupation of Iran during World War II and mass-murder
Iranians, and the 1953 coup that toppled popular nationalist leader Mohammad
Mossadeq, just to name a few.
"The accent of the Ahvaz bombings" proclaimed the Etemad newspaper, referring to a
military commander's remark that the sound of the blasts "had a British accent".
* Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Alireza Ronaghi
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Iranians carry the coffins of victims of two bomb blasts, in the city of Ahvaz near
the Iraqi border, Iran, Monday, October 17, 2005.
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Iranian women attend the funeral for the victims killed in Saturday's two bomb blasts
at a shopping mall in the city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border, Iran, Monday, October
17, 2005.
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An Iranian man mourns over the coffin of his loved one, who was killed where two
bombs exploded Saturday at a shopping mall in the city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi
border, Iran, Monday, October 17, 2005.
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Children from Iran's religious minorities chant slogans during a demonstration in
front of the British Embassy in Tehran October 17, 2005. Hundreds of Iranian
Christian, Zoroastrians and Jews demonstrated in front of the British Embassy in
Tehran to support Iran's right to nuclear technology.
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Iranian Elham Yaghoutian, wounded in yesterday's explosion lies in her hospital bed
in Ahvaz in southwest Iran. Iran's president said he suspected British involvement in
a double bomb attack in the southwest of the Islamic republic.
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A bomb blast survivor lies on his bed in a hospital October16, 2005, where two bombs
exploded near a shopping center in Ahvaz, near Iran's southwestern border with Iraq
on Saturday. Two bombs went off Saturday at a shopping center in Ahvaz, near Iran's
southwestern border with Iraq, killing four people and wounded at least 75 others,
according to state television.
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Iranian's help two wounded men in the street near a blast crater at the site where
two bombs exploded near a shopping center in Ahvaz.
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