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Bomb at Iranian Parade Kills at Least 10

   Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo 22 September 2010
   Iranian  soldiers  march  during an annual military parade which marks
   Iran's eight-year war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 Sep 2010

Photo: AFP

   Iranian  soldiers  march  during an annual military parade which marks
   Iran's eight-year war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 Sep 2010

   Iranian  authorities  say  a bomb exploded at a military parade in the
   northwest  and  has  killed  at  least  ten people, wounding dozens of
   others.

   Reports  from  Mahabad say most of the victims are women and children.
   The wives of two military officers are said to be among those killed.

   The  bomb  went  off  at  a  military  parade in the northwestern town
   Wednesday morning. Similar events are being held around the country as
   it marks the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, 30 years ago.

   No   one   immediately  claimed  responsibility  for  the  blast.  But
   provincial   Governor   Vahid   Jalalzadeh   blamed   what  he  called
   "counter-revolutionary  groups."  The phrase is often used to refer to
   Kurdish militants in the region.

   Mahabad  lies  close  to the borders of Turkey and Iraq and is home to
   many ethnic Kurds and minority Sunni Muslims.

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