MIDDLE EAST: IRAN BLAMES WEST FOR PAKISTAN BORDER ATTACKS.

Interpress Service | February 20, 2007 | Copyright

by Kimia Sanati

TEHRAN, Feb. 20, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Sectarian tension is growing in the predominantly Sunni southeast of Iran bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Tehran blaming Islamabad and "certain" Western countries.

A week ago suspected Sunni militants blew up a vehicle in Zahedan that was transporting members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), killing 11 and injuring 18,

"They entered Iran from Pakistan and carried out their attack with full support from Western powers. They are neither Shia nor Sunni, they are dependents ...

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