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Interior Min: Monday blasts conducted by remainders of past saboteurs

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 27, IRNA
Interior Min-Blasts-Saboteurs
Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said here on Monday night that the people who plotted Monday bomb blasts in Dezful and Abadan (in Iran's southwest Khuzestan province) were remainders of saboteurs that conducted such explosions in the past.

Pour-Mohammadi made the comment in response to media reporters before departing for Qatar where he is scheduled to participate at a conference titled "Reconstruction of Afghan Police Administration".

He added, "The explosives used on Monday in those two cities were all sound bombs according to the evaluation of the intelligence bodies, and they have fortunately led to no casualties."
On results of investigations about the roots of the past bomb blasts in Khuzestan, Pour-Mohammadi said, "The networks behind those blasts have been identified and most of their active agents have already been arrested."
He also informed of identifying and detaining red-handed the members of another group that had recently intended to detonate a much stronger bomb in the province.

Stressing that the directors of the arrested groups involved in the bomb blasts were outside Iran, the Interior Minister said, "The Intelligence Ministry has found clear clues indicating the fact." Pour-Mohammadi added, "The Intelligence Ministry has reported the exact cases of foreign governments' interference in recent blasts and sabotage to the Foreign Ministry and the latter would pursue the matter through diplomatic channels."
Touching on the conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan, he said, "In order to reconstruct the Afghan Police Administration our Afghan brethren are in need of expert manpower, training, advanced equipment, border guard posts, and other required facilities." The Interior Minister said that a similar conference was held in Qatar last year, reiterating, "Qatar is in charge of sponsoring such annual conferences on Afghanistan and Germany is responsible for seeing into proper implementation of the decisions adopted there." He added, "Afghanistan's neighbors, including Iran, that has long and porous borders with that country, and is under the influence of the security in Afghanistan, all participate at the conference, and have active participation in reconstruction of the Afghan Police Force."
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