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Cleric: Clues of US, Israel's Involvement in Zahedan Bombing Discernable

Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said clues of the involvement of the US and Israel in the recent bombing of a mosque in Zahedan were discernable. 
  

Making the remark at Tehran University campus while addressing thousands of people gathered for the congregational ceremony, Ayatollah Khatami condemned the bombing of a mosque in the city of Zahedan in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan Thursday evening, which killed 25 and injured 125 others.

He said the powerful Islamic establishment in Iran will surely identify the elements behind the terrorist act and punish them, the Islamic republic news agency reported.

Ayatollah Khatami further reiterated that the bombing aimed at spoiling the positive outcomes of the recent visit of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to Kurdistan Province.

Ayatollah Khatami said both Shiite and Sunni Muslims will, through their vigilance, manage to foil the plot to pit the two branches of Islam against each other.

Turning to international politics, Ayatollah Khatami condemned the US interference in the internal affairs of Lebanon, especially in its upcoming parliamentary elections, and said the people of Lebanon are the ones to choose their preferred persons for the parliament.

Referring to the demise anniversary of the Late Founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini on June 4, he said the presidential elections' issues should not overshadow the commemoration ceremonies for the Late Imam Khomeini because the Iranian nation owes a lot to the great man who revived the true spirit of Islam.