Iran arrest 20 over bombing blamed on UK

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18653161.htm

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested more than 20 people in connection with deadly weekend bombings in southern Iran which the government has blamed on Britain.

Saturday's blasts outside a shopping mall in the city of Ahvaz killed six people and wounded 100 and have prompted calls from Iran's hardline press for Tehran to sever ties with London.

The incident has led to a new nadir in relations between Britain and Iran, already strained by London's criticism of Tehran's atomic programme and British accusations that Iran has helped Iraqi insurgents carry out bomb attacks against British troops.

Britain denies any links to the bombings as well as a series of other attacks and unrest earlier this year in the ethnic-Arab dominated Khuzestan province which borders southern Iraq and contains the bulk of Iran's oil reserves.

[burythehatchet]

1. I pray for the day when the cancer upon the world

otherwise known as the British empire, becomes the size of a friggin pebble that Tony Blair can shove into his ear.

Sincerely,
Former Subject