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A lieutenant colonel of the Iranian elite Revolutionary Guard, attends Friday prayers with his colleague at Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran,...
A lieutenant colonel of the Iranian elite Revolutionary Guard, attends Friday prayers with his colleague at Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 16, 2010. A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll included members of the elite Revolutionary Guard. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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An unidentified woman injured during Zahedan's Thursday bomb blasts sits in a hospital at the city of Zahedan, 940 miles (1570 kilometers) southeast ...
An unidentified woman injured during Zahedan's Thursday bomb blasts sits in a hospital at the city of Zahedan, 940 miles (1570 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 16, 2010. A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Ali Azimzadeh)
An Iranian news agency says police have arrested 40 suspects after the devastating twin bombings of a mosque in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan, Iran's deputy police chief, has told the semiofficial Fars agency that the suspects "intended to create insecurity in the city of Zahedan after the bombing."
The blasts killed 27 people outside a mosque Thursday. A Sunni insurgency called Jundallah claimed responsibility.
Gen. Radan also said Saturday that two policemen were among the dead.
Earlier reports said members of the elite Revolutionary Guards were also killed.
Jundallah, which says it is fighting for the rights of the mainly Sunni Baluchi minority, said the attack was revenge for the execution of its leader Abdulmalik Rigi in June.
