Reply #10: It was a MILITARY bus, I see...It belonged to the RGs

[MADem]

Bomb Blast in Iran's South-Eastern Zahedan City Leaves 18 Dead

By Ladane Nasseri

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A bomb detonated early this morning in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan leaving 18 people dead, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The bomb was placed near a bus belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps ground forces, IRNA reported, citing Qasem Rezai, a military official.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aUCx8ke5BH.8&refer=home

If this is us, I'd be a bit surprised. But there's not enough info yet to know much of anything...

On edit--WOW, it was a 'car but NOT suicide' bombing... This is INTERNAL, I'm starting to think...or it could be drug smuggling, but why not just bomb the police station, not go after the RGs??? Ever since the pharmacies got rid of the medicinal heroin for the addicts, and of course the ban on alcohol, the smuggling has gone up and up. ...but I dunno...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17141988/

“This blind terrorist operation led to the martyrdom of 18,” IRNA quoted a Guards commander, Qasem Rezaei, as saying.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The explosion occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Ahmadabad district on the outskirts of Zahedan, IRNA said.

The passenger car stopped in the middle of the road, forcing the bus loaded with Guards to stop. The car’s occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before it exploded, IRNA said.

Zahedan and its surroundings, which lie near Iran’s borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been the scene of clashes between police and drug smugglers.....