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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – Iran’s
Ministry of Intelligence and Security announced on Tuesday that several
individuals involved in two bombings in the mainly Arab-populated
south-western province
of Khuzestan last
month had been arrested.
The semi-official Fars
news agency quoted a ministry statement as saying that three of those who
had a direct role in the bombings admitted to having carried out the
attacks to create ethnic divisions.
A string of top government officials, including hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have
hinted at a British government role in the Ahwaz
bombings, which followed a spate of popular uprising in the volatile
province that left dozens of residents killed or wounded.
Iran has also blamed Canada for a spate of bombings in Ahwaz earlier this year. Tehran has not produced any documents yet to
substantiate its charges against London and Ottawa.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki claimed
that Tehran possessed evidence proving that London was behind the
twin bombings in the restive city. “The British with new plans and
scenarios are aiming to sow division and meddle in the internal affairs of
countries in the Middle East”, Mottaki said.
Iran’s state-owned press have called for the Islamic Republic to break off
diplomatic ties with London
and expel British embassy staff, including the ambassador, Sir Richard
Dalton.
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