via www.Lucianne.com
Three explosions which Thursday shook the southwestern Iranian port of Khorramshahr were caused by mine-sweeping operations, a local official told the Fars news agency.
Quite possibly he's telling the truth. Perhaps even so much as a 50% possibility.
Khorramshahr's district governor Mohammad-Alii Shirnai told Fars that owing to the expansion of the operations, the sound of the explosions was quite strong and shook some buildings in the city.
Following the initial Fars report, there had been speculation of renewed sabotage acts in in Khorramshahr, located in the Khuzestan province bordering Iraq. There had been several bombings in the recent years in the Khuzestan province by Iranian-Arab separatists. Seven Iranian-Arabs from the provincial capital Ahvaz are reportedly to be executed in connection with sabotage acts in 2006 and efforts to topple the Islamic system.
And there's the other 50% or so possibility. |