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Sunni Jihad Movement: We Carried Out Shiraz Mosque Bombing

The Sunni Jihad Movement has taken responsibility for the April 13 attack at the Shiraz mosque, calling it a response to the April 8 execution of two Sunni clerics in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern Iranian province of Baluchistan.

Also, the Baluchi opposition group Youth of the Voice of Islamic Justice declared that in response to the execution, it had executed an IRGC captain taken hostage a few months ago in eastern Iran.

The group also threatened to execute an IRGC major that it is also holding.

Source: Elaph.com, April 12 and 15, 2008

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