Iran suicide bomb attack targeting Revolutionary Guard bus leaves at least 20 dead

A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying personnel of Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force killed at least 20 people and wounded 20 in the country's southeast, state media reported. An Al Qaeda-linked Sunni extremist group operating across the border in Pakistan reportedly claimed the assault.

Iran suicide bomb attack targeting Revolutionary Guard bus leaves at least 20 dead Iran-revolutionary-guard

Iran suicide bomb attack targeting Revolutionary Guard bus leaves at least 20 dead Iran-revolutionary-guard

The bombing came on the same day a U.S.-led conference in Warsaw was to include discussions on what America describes as Iran's malign influence across the wider Mideast. It also comes two days after Iran marked the 40th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution and four decades of tense relations with the West.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif directly linked the meeting to the attack.

"Is it no coincidence that Iran is hit by terror on the very day that (hashtag)WarsawCircus begins?" Zarif wrote on Twitter. "Especially when cohorts of same terrorists cheer it from Warsaw streets & support it with (Twitter) bots?"

The state-run IRNA news agency, citing what it described as an "informed source," reported the attack on the Guard in Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan province.

The province, which lies on a major opium trafficking route, has seen occasional clashes between Iranian forces and Baluch separatists, as well as drug traffickers.

The Guard is a major economic and military power in Iran, answerable only to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It later issued a statement saying a vehicle loaded with explosives targeted a bus carrying border guards affiliated with its force.

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Iran suicide bomb attack targeting Revolutionary Guard bus leaves at least 20 dead

Iran suicide bomb attack targeting Revolutionary Guard bus leaves at least 20 dead

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