Update: According to Iranian media, Ansar Forqan claimed responsibility for suicide car attack in Iranian southeastern city of Chabahar.
Baluch activists doubt the claim and say that the attack give Islamic republic authority to suppress the activists of religious minorities in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
“Ansar Forqan, a group that nobody has ever heard about it, claimed the responsibility for today’s attack,” a Baluch activist told Avatoday on condition of anonymity, “We all know, just like the attack on military parade in Ahvaz was arranged by Islamic republic themselves to have an excuse to suppress the religious activists in Baluchestan.”
A suicide car explosion killed at least three people and wounded more than twenty others in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar, state TV reported.
A suicide car explosion killed at least three people and wounded more than twenty others in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar, state TV reported.
“The suicide attacker set off the explosion in front of police headquarters in Chabahar,” Chabahar’s governor Rahmdel Bameria told state television. He also declared that two of the causalities were police officers.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
In 2010 at least 28 people including members of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Cops were killed in a similar suicide attack in a Shiite mosque, southeast of Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused United States for backing the attack at that time.
