Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Bomb kills 8 in Ahvaz, Iran; Ahmadinejad cancels scheduled trip there

Looks like not everyone in Iran is enamored with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The holocaust-denying president was scheduled to visit Ahvaz, a city near the Iraqi border with a large Arab speaking population.

As Reuters reports, Ahmadinejad was scheduled to visit there on Tuesday, his office quickly announced the cancellation that trip, blaming--I'm not making this up--sandstorms.

A Lebanese pro-Hezbollah TV station is claiming Ahmadinejad was the target of the blasts, although as of this writing, no group is claiming responsibility for the bombing, which killed 8 people.

Even if he wasn't the target, not all is well in Iran. This is not the first bombing in Ahvaz.

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