Iran army parade attack
Iran says 'jihadist separatists' behind deadly parade attack. — AFP
The U.N. Security Council is condemning the fusillade that killed 25 people at an Iranian military parade, calling it a "heinous and cowardly terrorist attack."
The council issued a statement Monday emphasizing that perpetrators and sponsors of the assault need to be held accountable.
Militants disguised as soldiers fired on marching troops and onlookers at a parade Saturday in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz.
Blamed on Arab separatists in the region, the bloodshed marked the deadliest attack in Iran in nearly a decade. It further racheted up tensions across the Persian Gulf ahead of the U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders, which began Monday.
Thousands of Iranians attended a mass funeral service Monday for the attack victims. — AP
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says 24 people are dead and 53 wounded in an attack on a military parade in the country's oil-rich southwest.
The agency cited "knowledgeable sources" without elaborating. It said gunmen were dressed in Guard uniforms and targeted a riser where military and police commanders were sitting.
The attack left at least eight members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guard dead and 20 others wounded, local media reported.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault in Ahvaz, which saw gunfire spray into a crowd of marching Guardsmen, bystanders and government officials watching from a nearby riser. — AP
At least eight troops were killed on Saturday in an attack on a military parade in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the province's deputy governor Ali-Hossein Hosseinzadeh says.
"Eight to nine military personnel were martyred and more than 20 wounded," the semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Hosseinzadeh as saying.
"The wounded are in a critical condition."
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