Iranian mourners vent anger at Britain over blasts

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17111437.htm

BRITISH ACCENT

The homemade bombs were left in rubbish bins outside a busy shopping mall and detonated three minutes apart, wounding almost 100 people and damaging several cars and shop fronts.

Brigadier General Mohsen Kazemeini, Revolutionary Guards commender of south Iran, said the blasts bore the hallmarks of Ahvaz bombings in June that killed four people.

Security forces have rounded up five cells of opposition groups involved in those attacks and earlier disturbances who had confessed to "receiving support, equipment and terrorist training," by British forces in Iraq, he told Fars.

He said all those under arrest would be tried and executed.

Mistrust of Britain runs deep in Iran because of London's long history of involvement in pivotal events such as its reluctance to surrender control of Iran's oil industry and the 1953 coup that toppled popular nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadeq.

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1. "All those under arrest would be tried and executed"

sounds like one helluva "trial"

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2. Yeah, well the 100,000 dead Iraqis would probably agree. n/t

If the US were under the same drumbeat of imminent assault, as Iran has been, there would be "martial law" here also. That entitles the US military to execute people w/o "due process" also. Has to do with an emergency leading to the suspension of civilian legal system for efficiency's sake. It's a wartime thing. Consorting with the enemy to commit treason should = death if nothing else does IMO. If Iran isn't on a "wartime footing" I'd be very surprised.

Gyre