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Iran blames West over mosque attack

17 July 2010 14:53 (UTC +04:00)

As funerals for the victims of Thursday’s attack got under way, Iranian police also arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances", local media reported on Saturday.

The Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group claimed responsibility for the bombings, which targeted a Shia mosque attended by members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in the predominantly Sunni city of Zahedan in the Sistan-Baluchestan province.

Geneneral Ahmad Reza Radan, Iran’s deputy police chief, told the semiofficial Fars agency that police had arrested people who "intended to create insecurity in the city of Zahedan after the bombing".

Other government officials lashed out at foreign powers, blaming them for the deadly bombings.