BBC: Iran accuses UK of bombing link

[allemand]

Iran has accused the UK of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the restive south-western city of Ahwaz on Tuesday.

"Britain must respond to the doubts of Iranians concerning the events," said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

Mr Mottaki said the masterminds of the bombing "or people of their mind" had been photographed with UK officials.

A foreign office spokesman in London has denied the accusation, saying Britain condemned terrorism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4646864.stm

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister claimed that British soldiers in Iraq equipped and directed those behind a twin bomb attack in the oil city of Ahvaz.

"When Britain welcomes them on its soil and provides them with the means to act, notably to carry out terrorist acts like the one yesterday in Ahvaz, it is not qualified to speak of terrorism," Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.

"We have information showing that British soldiers in Iraq equip these elements and draw up their missions," he said Wednesday.

"It is not necessary to point out that the members of this group are based in London," he added, apparently referring to the Britain-based Popular Democratic Front of Ahvazi Arabs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060125/wl_mideast_afp/iranunrestbritain_060125123706

[marmar]

1. I wouldn't be shocked...

They've got to provoke, so they can come up with their next pretext....

:(

[redirish28]

2. I'm just wondering how closely US was to this...

after all you can't seem to say UK without the US now at days.

[wordpix2]

16. my thought,too, with US running war in Iraq, BushCo must be behind this

Let's say this is so: then, * and Blair have just signed on to violent overthrow of the Iranian gov., joining forces with native Iranian Arabs angry about discrimination and environmental degradation as their lands are being grabbed for oil.

UNBELIEVABLE IRONY

God, with * as presnit, the U.S. is about to fuel escalation of WWIII in the ME.

[CJCRANE]

3. This reminds me of a link

I saw here on DU a few months ago .

It was an anonymous US military source who claimed that the Iran mission would be different to the Iraq invasion due to lessons learnt.

It would use covert ops to avoid govt oversight and also utilise internal opposition to avoid having to use US troops (again to avoid oversight and also easier to hide the expenditure).

Wouldn't surprise me if Bushco had roped Blair in to use his boys to do some of the dirty work.

[stop the bleeding]

9. and this posted yesterday by the author of this thread on Ledeen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2061735#2061741

[CJCRANE]

10. ...neocons "shaping the circumstances" and "creating reality" again nt.

[Poll_Blind]

4. The Brits have ALREADY BUSTED out one pair of Brit. saboteurs! (More+pix)

British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq?

From the article linked above:

In another example of how the Iraqi quagmire is deliberately designed to degenerate into a chaotic abyss, British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack and the media have dutifully shut up about the real questions surrounding the incident.

What is admitted is that two British soldiers in Arab garb and head dress drove a car toward a group of Iraq police and began firing. According to the Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili, one policeman was shot dead and another was injured. Pictured below are the wigs and clothing that the soldiers were wearing.

The Arab garb is obviously undeniable proof that the operation, whatever its ultimate intention, was staged so that any eyewitnesses would believe it had been carried out by Iraqis.

British Smash Into Iraqi Jail To Free 2 Detained Soldiers

I can't find other pictures on Google right now, though I know there were more. Also more stories too, or so it seems.

onEDIT This article has the most specific info I've found so far.

PB

[soup]

6. Thanks for the memory jog.

I'd forgotten about that - along with so many other things. :(

It comes, it goes. More insanity takes its place.

I'm too old for all this crap.

[NYC]

18. I had forgotten about that.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Village Idiot]

5. Ahmadinejad has taken a page out of the WH 9-11 Book...

Ahmadinejad was supposed to visit the area yesterday, but his trip was cancelled.


It really sounds to me like when senior government officials were warned not to fly on Sept 11, 2001, and many high-level business executives were lured away from ther WTC offices by Warren Buffet's seminar...

Could he be trying to discredit the "Coalition of the Killing," while at the same time generating some sympathy/doubt for poor l'il Iran for the March 6 IAEA and/or the UN General Assembly meetings...


Time to don my AFB, however...my left ear has a "buzzing" noise in it.

[bemildred]

7. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt

[Amonester]

8. One of my friend just told me he shipped a whole container filed

with Dr. Phil wigs to the UK last month!

http://www.about-wigs.com/drphil.html

Gee... Me wonders... NOT! /sarcasm

x(

[HuffleClaw]

11. it wouldn't exactly be unprecedented.

that incident that ended up with the brits busting a couple of their guys out of jail comes to mind.

[Democrats_win]

12. Covert war has begun on schedule: b4 March Oil Bourse.

[lovuian]

13. Iran blames Britain after bombings hit border town

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=ae53b32cad58ff30&cat=c08dd24cec417021

Friction between London and Tehran rose to new heights after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Britain of involvement in bomb attacks that killed at least nine people in Ahvaz, in Iran's predominantly Arab province of Khuzestan.

The accusations are the latest to fly between the two countries, which have come into confrontation over the presence of British troops in southern Iraq and Iran's nuclear programme. European diplomatic efforts to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its suspected nuclear weapons programme are gathering pace, with talks scheduled in London on Monday.

"Traces of the occupiers of Iraq is evident in the Ahvaz events. They should take responsibility in this regard," said Mr Ahmadinejad in comments reported by state television. The Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Britain "equipped and directed" the attackers.

A Downing Street spokesman said the charge was "ludicrous". He added: "Putting the blame on us rather than on the terrorists responsible underlines why there is such widespread international concern about this Iranian government, especially after its repugnant statements on Israel and the Holocaust." In November, London accused Iran of supplying insurgents with explosive devices that had killed British soldiers in southern Iraq, directly across the Shatt al-Arab waterway from Iran's Khuzestan province. Tuesday's bombs also injured 46 people in Ahvaz, after detonating in a bank and a government office.
more...

Looks like the Iran President has a list of enemies... Blair and britain is one...

[lastknowngood]

14. Remember the terrorist org that the US and Britain were funding

from southern Iraq until the war and they "disarmed" them. That was around Basra, my guess is that now they are active again and being used by the US or Britain to undermine the Iran government. I could be wrong but we used them before the invasion and we used similar groups in south america. That's not a conspiracy theory, it's just a little logic.

[lovuian]

15. I totally agree and it goes with the military strategy

of taking over a country before we announced War with Iraq we were in there months before .......

[wordpix2]

17. It's the oil, stupid. Oil & ethnic Arabs don't mix when Big Development

comes to their desert homes. Can't blame the Ahvazi for being pissed. Note they attacked a bank and environmental agency. Can we blame them for being angry? Hey, here's a typical Rove/Cheney/Bush idea: angry locals and BushCo working together to topple the Iranian regime with violent attacks, for a little more successful nation-building. :sarcasm:

<snip> "A little-known ethnic Arab separatist group has said it was behind the blasts inside a private bank and state environmental agency on Tuesday. "

snip>
"The oil-rich province of Khuzestan, which borders Iraq and is home to about two million ethnic Arabs, was rocked by a wave of unrest last year, including bomb blasts in June and October.

The government blamed the attacks on the UK, whose forces are just across the border, but British officials again denied involvement.

In November, protests erupted in Ahwaz after ethnic Arabs accused authorities of discrimination.