Iran Accuses Blogger Over Shiraz Explosion

By Cernig

Iran has accused a Germany-based monarchist weblog of being the middle man for payments to alleged bombers at the Shiraz mosque and indicated it believes Britain and the US provided the funding.

Six suspects among the 15 people detained over the explosion in Shiraz are linked to a German-based monarchist weblog, a report says, PressTV reported.

The six agents, two of them chemistry students, were in contact with a blogger, belonging to the German-based Rahe Azadi (Way of Freedom) weblog, via email, JAHAN reported.

Earlier, they had detonated bombs in Fars Province sabotaging the Sivand and another Dam in return for a sum of over $20,000 from the blogger.

The blogger then requested the 'facilitators' to target two public places, promising each bomber a $100,000 reward.

A crowded mosque in Shiraz was the site of the first blast, which left 14 people killed and some 200 others injured on April 12.

The explosives used in the blast were described as two containers of chemical material.

The bombers were next assigned to target Tehran's International Book Fair, May 1-11, at the city's congregational prayer venue.

Iran has accused the United States, Britain and Israel of funding the suspects and providing them with necessary expertise to make bombs.

Iran's intelligence minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i earlier ruled out any links between the Shiraz bombers and the Mujahedeen Khalq terrorist organization (MKO).

Credible? Maybe not. For me at least, the very fact that the Iranians are specifically exonerating their perrenial bugbear, the MeK, gives that added whiff of authenticity. Certainly, there are more evidentiary details here than in a month of ex-White House military press flack Gen. Bergner's pronouncements about Iran meddling in Iraqi affairs. But just like Bergner's claims what is lacking is proof of national complicity. The Iraqi monarchist movement in exile is a well-funded one and wouldn't have any trouble finding a few 100k if it wanted to without asking the US or UK governments for it.

Comments

[Cain]

> For me at least, the very
> fact that the Iranians are specifically exonerating
> their perrenial bugbear, the MeK, gives that
> added whiff of authenticity.

Er, what?
They've said 1 group didn't bomb the mosque months after their official statement was that it wasn't a bombing at all.
And this lends credibility to their claims for you now does it. Awesome.

> Credible? Maybe not.

Well by all means, run it anyway. And tell us what Alex Jones has to say while you are at it.

[Cernig]

Cain,

I bet you believe everything the US military says, even after the Iraqi WMD hunt, Pat Tilman, Abu Graib, and the revalations about their pet stable of analyst shills. And you call me gullible.

I said exactly what I meant - that it may not be credible but there are points to it that make it slightly more likely to be true. That's it, that's all.

Regards, C

PS Who's Alex Jones? I know who Aled Jones is - Welsh boy soprano back in the 80s.

[Cain]

"I bet you believe everything the US military says,"

I was talking about what Iranian officials said in the official Iranian press.
Would you like to try and address what I've said on that basis rather than evading it again?

[Cernig]

I already did. 2nd para of my previous comment.