TEHRAN, Feb 27: Two bombs exploded in the southern Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan on Monday wounding at least six people, officials said. The bombs were planted in the governor’s office in both cities, which lie in the province of Khuzestan, the heartland of Iran’s oil industry, that has seen tensions between Iranian authorities and the Arab minority over the last year.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, the latest in a string of attacks and violence this year in Khuzestan, which borders Iraq and contains most of Iran’s Arabic-speaking minority.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to reporters in Kuwait, said: “The presence of occupation (forces) in Iraq leads to the deterioration of the security situation in the region.”
