Iranian cleric says US, Israel behind mosque blast (When do the lies stop?)

Tehran’s Substitute Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said clues of the involvement of the US and Israel in Thursday's bombing of a mosque in Zahedan were discernable. Talking to a large congregation gathered at Tehran University campus for Friday prayers, the Ayatollah condemned the blast at a mosque in the city of Zahedan in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan Thursday evening, which killed 25 and injured 125 others.

According to IRNA, he said the powerful Islamic establishment in Iran will surely identify the elements behind the terrorist act and punish them.

I guess it is a good thing he's a SUBSTITUTE for Friday prayers, huh? Then one wonders why the Palestinian - Israel conflict never gets settled. It would be good if all the countries in the Middle East were on the same page. ISRAEL EXISTS !!! This is such childish nonsense already ! The Palestinian people await the day Iran STOPS lying !


Blood is seen on the ceiling inside a mosque after a bomb explosion in Zahedan, 1076 km (668 miles) south east of Tehran, May 28, 2009. An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported. REUTERS/IRNA

Pakistan: Iran partially closes border crossing (click here)
By ABDUL SATTAR – 1 day ago
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Iran has partially closed a border crossing into Pakistan following a deadly mosque bombing in southeastern Iran, two Pakistani officials near the border said Monday. The foreign minister said the frontier was open.
Qamar Masood, a senior official in Baluchistan province on the Pakistan side of the border, said the crossing at Taftan had been closed for trading but that foot traffic was still being allowed.
Shahbaz Ahmed, an official with the Pakistani border security force at Taftan, told AP the border had been closed for the past three days and that no vehicles had crossed during that period.
"Officially we have not been given any intimation or reason, but I think that blast in Zahedan could be the reason," Masood told The Associated Press, referring to the mosque attack.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement that Pakistan's border with Iran "was never closed" and that five Iranian trucks carrying aid for refugees from a military offensive in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley region had crossed over on Monday.
Officials could not immediately explain the different accounts.
Calls to Iranian officials were not immediately returned on Monday....