Iran says mosque bombers planned oil pipeline attack

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday U.S. agents had armed and trained those behind a deadly blast in a mosque last month and that pipelines in the country’s oil-rich south were also among the planned targets.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran had evidence the United States, Britain and Israel were involved in the April 12 blast in the southern city of Shiraz that killed 14 people and wounded 200.


Iranian officials had initially said the explosion during an evening prayer sermon was caused by explosives left over from an exhibition commemorating the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

The Islamic Republic, which is embroiled in a standoff with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear plans, has yet to make public evidence against those arrested and the alleged involvement of its old foes.

Reuters