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         Who could supply components for a 'sound-bomb' ?   
      
         Small bomb rocks Iranian oil city, no one hurt   
         29 Jan 2006 11:19:53 GMT   
      
         Source: Reuters   
      
   TEHRAN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A percussion bomb exploded in the restive   
   southwestern Iranian oil city of Ahvaz late on Saturday evening but caused   
   no injuries, the official IRNA news agency reported.   
      
   People poured into the streets in panic after the blast, the agency said.   
   Eight people were killed on Tuesday when bombs ripped through a bank and   
   government building in Ahvaz, capital of the mainly Arab province of   
   Khuzestan.   
      
   Khuzestan has simmered with ethnic unrest since April, when five people died   
   in protests ignited by rumours the government was considering settling   
   non-Arabs in southwest Iran to dilute Arab influence there.   
      
   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit Ahvaz on Monday. The city has   
   seen intermittent rioting and bombings since April.   
      
   "An initial investigation found the exploded object was a percussion bomb,"   
   Khuzestan Governor Amir Hayat Moqaddam told IRNA, referring to the device   
   designed to create more noise than damage.   
      
   A little-known group campaigning for independence for Iran's Arab minority   
   claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks in a Web statement. The claim   
   could not be verified.   
      
   Iran last week accused the British military in Iraq of cooperating with the   
   bombers. Britain denied the allegation and condemned the attacks.   
      
   Iran's prosecutor general, Qorbanali Dorri Najafabadi, warned in the   
   conservative Resalat daily that the judiciary would deal severely with the   
   attackers.   
      
   "Those behind the bombings in Ahvaz will be considered as 'mohareb'," he   
   said, using a religious term that describes someone who struggles against   
   God. A mohareb can face the death penalty under Iranian Islamic law.   
      
   Seven people were killed in bombings in June and six died in a blast in   
   October. Some minor oil facilities were bombed in September.   
      
   About 3 percent of Iran's 69 million people are Arabs but authorities are   
   very sensitive about protests and discontent in the southwestern Arab   
   territories, home to Iran's biggest oil fields.   
      
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