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Britain denies Iranian bomb claims


Britain has dismissed as "completely without foundation" suggestions by the Iranian leadership that UK forces were involved in twin bombings that killed five people and injured more than 100 in south-western Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he suspected Britain played a role in Saturday's attacks. The ISNA students news agency quoted him as saying: "We are very suspicious about the role of British forces in perpetrating such terrorist acts."

Earlier, Iranian interior minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said he believed that the blasts, which tore into a shopping centre in Ahvaz, in Khuzestan province, were "a continuation of previous explosions that were guided from abroad."

But in a statement, the British embassy in Tehran said: "The British Embassy expresses its revulsion at and condemnation of the terrorist attacks in Ahwaz on 15 October in which so many Iranian people have lost their lives and been injured. On behalf of the British Government and people, we extend our condolences to the families of the bereaved, the injured and all those involved.

"The British Government condemns all terrorist activity unequivocally.