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Friday, September 24, 2010     INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Kurdish bomb targets Iran brass, disrupts parade

NICOSIA — Kurdish insurgents were said to have conducted a major strike on Iran's military leadership.

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Officials said a bomb believed placed by Kurdish insurgents killed at least 12 people, including the wives of two military chiefs. The bomb exploded 50 meters from the podium of an Iranian military parade in the northwestern Kurdish town of Mahabad near the border with Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported.

"Counter-revolutionaries committed this savage act with the aim of taking revenge on the people of Mahabad," Vahid Jalalzadeh, governor of the West Ajarbaijan province, said.

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The Sept. 22 bombing was the latest in the Kurdish insurgency campaign against the Teheran regime. Officials have accused Britain and the United States of training and financing the insurgency by the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

The attack marred the latest Iranian demonstration of its military might. Iran's military began a series of parades during the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war, which ended in 1988. In Teheran, the military exhibited the new solid-fuel Sejil intermediate-range missile as well as the longer-range Ghadr-1.

The military also displayed its new Karar unmanned aerial vehicle. Iran has asserted that Karar was an attack platform with a range of 1,000 kilometers.

"We can confidently tell people that our military might is superior in the region, but our military superiority is not limited to the number of planes and material calculations," a senior Iranian commander said.

Another element in the parade was the new so-called Blue Berets, designated by Iran to be a unit for United Nations peace-keeping missions. The unit was accompanied by armored personnel carriers with the UN insignia.

"Iran has been ready for several years to provide a group of peacekeeping soldiers to the United Nations," Iranian Chief of Staff Gen. Ataollah Salehi said.



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