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Hassan Rouhani, the president of Iran, pinned the blame for the attack during the parade on the 'small [Arab] puppet countries in the region,' which he said have the backing of the U.S. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 25, 2018

The men who carried out Saturday’s attack on the parade in Ahvaz, in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan, were well trained: four of them killed 25 people and wounded 70 others before they were shot dead. The question is whether they were trained by Islamic S...

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