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Neue Entwicklungen und Erkenntnisse der Behörden zu den Bombenanschlägen und Tehran und Ahwaz.

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Iran makes arrests after deadly blasts

Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com

LONDON, June 14 (IranMania) - Iran on Monday made its first arrests over a string of deadly pre-election bombings blamed on Iraq-based extremists, vowing the presidential election would go ahead without disruption.
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"Some of the perpetrators of the acts have been arrested, others are on the verge of being caught," Information Minister Ali Yusseini told reporters. "They have foreign links," he added, without giving further details.

Ahvaz governor Mohammad Jafar-Sarrahmi pointed the finger at the Iraq-based People's Mujahedeen, which is Iran's main armed opposition group, and Baathist supporters of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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Officials emphasised the violence in the two cities may not have been linked, saying the Ahvaz bombings appeared to have been organised more professionally than the relatively amateurish Tehran attacks.
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Initial investigations had shown that the explosives TNT and C4 were used in the Ahvaz bombings, said the deputy interior minister in charge of security, Ali Asghar Ahmadi.

"Therefore the bombings were carried out close to the method used by Iraq's (Saddam Hussein-era) intelligence in the Khuzestan region in the past," he told the ISNA news agency.
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