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Monday 24 SepteMber 2018

Iran’s president blames US after attack on military parade

By NASSER KARIMI of the 2015 nuclear ac-
JON GAMBRELL cord with Iran in May and
Associated Press began restoring sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s that were eased under the
president on Sunday ac- deal. It also has steadily
cused an unnamed U.S.- ramped up pressure on Iran
allied country in the Persian to try to get it to stop what
Gulf of being behind a ter- Washington calls its “ma-
ror attack on a military pa- lign activities” in the region.
rade that killed 25 people The U.S. government nev-
and wounded 60, further ertheless strongly con-
raising regional tensions. demned Saturday’s attack
Hassan Rouhani’s com- and expressed its sympa-
ments came as Iran’s thy, saying it “condemns
Foreign Ministry also sum- all acts of terrorism and the
moned Western diplomats loss of any innocent lives.”
over them allegedly pro- The Islamic State group also
viding havens for the Arab claimed responsibility for
separatists who claimed the attack in a message on
Saturday’s attacks in the its Amaaq news agency,
southwestern city of Ahvaz. but provided no evidence
The Iranian moves, as well it carried out the assault.
as promises of revenge In this photo a Revolutionary Guard member carries a wounded boy after a shooting during They also initially wrongly
by Iran’s elite Revolution- military parade marking 38th anniversary of Iraq’s 1980 invasion of Iran, in the southwestern city of said the Ahvaz attack tar-
ary Guard, come as the Ahvaz, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. geted Rouhani, who was
country already faces tur- Associated Press in Tehran. The militants
moil in the wake of the York. diers opened fire on an an- nomic protests. have made a string of false
American withdraw from Iran meanwhile summoned nual Iranian military parade The attack killed at least 25 claims in the wake of major
Tehran’s nuclear deal with diplomats from Britain, Den- in Ahvaz, was the deadli- people and wounded 60, defeats in Iraq and Syria.
world powers. The attack mark and the Netherlands est attack in the country in according to the state-run On Sunday, IS militants post-
in Ahvaz, which saw wom- early Sunday for allegedly nearly a decade. Women IRNA news agency. It said ed a video online of three
en and children flee with harboring “members of and children scattered gunmen wore military uni- men, two of whom who
uniformed soldiers blood- the terrorist group” that along with once-marching forms and targeted a riser spoke in Arabic extolling
ied, has further shaken the launched the attack. Dan- Revolutionary Guard sol- where military and police the benefits of martyrdom.
country. ish Foreign Minister Anders diers as heavy gunfire rang commanders were sitting. A third who spoke in Farsi
Rouhani’s remarks could Samuelsen condemned out, the chaos captured State TV hours later report- said they wanted to attack
refer to Saudi Arabia, the the attack and stressed live on state television. ed that all four gunmen the Guard. The video in-
United Arab Emirates or that there would be “con- The region’s Arab sepa- had been killed. cluded no time stamps, nor
Bahrain — close U.S. mili- sequences” if it turns out ratists, once only known At least eight of the dead any specific references to
tary allies that view Iran as that those responsible have for nighttime attacks on served in the Revolutionary the Ahvaz attack.
a regional menace over its connections to Denmark. unguarded oil pipelines, Guard, an elite paramilitary The attack dominated Ira-
support for militant groups The ministry later sum- claimed responsibility for unit that answers only to nian newspaper front pag-
across the Middle East. moned the UAE’s envoy as the assault, and Iranian of- Iran’s supreme leader, ac- es on Sunday. The hard-line
“All of those small merce- well over what it called the ficials appeared to believe cording to the semi-official daily Kayhan warned that
nary countries that we see “irresponsible and insult- the claim. The separat- Tasnim news agency. The Iranians would demand
in this region are backed ing statements” of an Emi- ists accuse Iran’s Persian- Guard responded to the Saudi Arabia feel the “hard
by America. It is Americans rati adviser, according to dominated government attack on Sunday, warning slap” of the country’s pow-
who instigate them and the semi-official ISNA news of discriminating against it would seek “deadly and er.
provide them with nec- agency. The UAE did not its ethnic Arab minority. unforgiving revenge in the Iran’s government de-
essary means to commit immediately acknowledge Khuzestan province also near future.” clared Monday as a nation-
these crimes,” Rouhani said the summons. has seen recent protests Tensions have been on the wide public mourning day,
before leaving for the U.N. Saturday’s attack, in which over Iran’s nationwide rise in Iran since the Trump state-run IRNA news agen-
General Assembly in New militants disguised as sol- drought, as well as eco- administration pulled out cy reported Sunday.q