Six dead and two dozen wounded in two explosive device attacks
this news cycle, the day of a scheduled visit by the chief
executive officer. Sound like U.S., France, Israel? Wrong. The
report is from the Iran southern city of Ahvaz. One explosive
device in front of a bank; the second in front of a government
natural resources office. Ahmadinejad's visit was scheduled for
January 24, today; but had been cancelled because -- the expedient
explanation after the plane crash at Tehran last weeks that
dispatched the high command of the IRGC -- of bad weather.
You will recall the strange report some weeks back of a gunfight
attack on a presidential convoy in southeast Iran, when a
presidential bodyguard (driver) and a so-called bandit were killed
by gunfire. The explanation at the time was that the attack was
ignorant, random Baluchi bandits (Baluchistan is a beggarly, abused
stateless chauvinistic enterprise spread over three countries
[Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan]), and that we were not to leap to
theories based on the fact that Ahmadinejad was some many air miles
away at the time.
No leapt theories today, either; just waiting on Iranian
confirmation that these explosive devices were the work of (a)
Zionist agents (b) backfires or (c) the great Satan in his manifold
disguises.
Is Iran stable? Is any oil-soaked tyranny stable in the 21st
century? Bumpy ride, it's gonna be, seatbelts, fasten.
topics:
Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Oil
