Cross-dresser Caved-In thinks this is Bush's fault too:
IRAN-Bombs kill 8, wound 75 in Iran before election
Reuters ^ | Jun 12, 2005 | Hossein Jasseb
AHVAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Bombs killed eight people and wounded 75 in Iran on Sunday in a rare string of attacks five days before a presidential election.
Security is tight in the Islamic republic, where bombings have been almost unheard of in the past decade.
Four bombs in Ahvaz, capital of the partly Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan, where most of Iran's oil reserves lie, targeted government buildings, killing seven people, provincial officials said.
Hours later, a bomb in the capital Tehran killed one person.
In the Ahvaz blasts, two of the dead were women, and 70 people were wounded, the officials said. Ethnic unrest claimed five lives in Khuzestan in April.
The Popular Democratic Front of Ahvaz, which is campaigning for an independent Khuzestan, denied it was behind the attacks, but said another Arab group calling itself the Ahvazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades had claimed responsibility.
The Tehran bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin. Apart from the person killed, five people were wounded, Ali Aghamohammadi, spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, said.
The dead man, 65-year-old Asghar Fattahi, had been waiting for a bus near Imam Hossein square in a crowded district.
"I was two blocks away when I heard a giant explosion. What's going on? First in Ahvaz and now in Tehran?" said a telecommunications worker, who gave his name only as Omid.
There was no immediate word on who had carried out the Tehran bombing or whether it was linked to the attacks in Ahvaz.
The bombs in Ahvaz, 550 km (340 miles) southwest of Tehran, targeted the governor's office, as well as two local government departments and a housing complex for state media employees.
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