Insurgency heats up in Iran

AP:

Police and insurgents clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran late Friday near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week, Iranian news agencies reported.

"Minutes ago, the sound of a bomb explosion was heard in one of Zahedan's streets," the state-run news agency IRNA said, without giving more details.

The semiofficial Fars news agency said clashes broke out between Iranian police and armed insurgents after the explosion.

Fars quoted the governor of Zahedan, Hasan Ali Nouri, as saying the blast was a "sound bomb explosion"_ a device that creates a loud boom but that usually does not cause casualties.

Nouri said there was gunfire heard but that it was late at night and that police had cordoned off the area.

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A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops, has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday bombing.

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The US is unlikely to be backing a Sunni terrorist group. However, it would not surprise me that Sunni countries concerned about the rise of Iran and the threat it poses in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf might find a way to give Iran a taste of its own medicine. The Saudis have been known to contribute to charitable organizations that might funnal money to the "victims of oppression" in Iran.

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