Iran's president suspects British role in bombings
17/10/2005 - 13:56:32Iran’s president continues to believe that Britain had a hand in the bombings that killed six people at the weekend, state television reported today.
The British Embassy has denied the charge and condemned the blasts.
Thousands of people today took part in the funeral in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, of the six people who were killed when bombs exploded on Saturday in a shopping centre in the south-western town.
Some mourners accused Britain of instigating the blasts, which wounded at least 102 people. “We are extremely suspicious that there was a British forces’ role in the terrorist attacks,” state TV quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as telling the Cabinet yesterday.
