Iran accuses UK over bombings

Iran has accused Britain of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz yesterday…

Iran has accused Britain of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz yesterday.

"Their (British) cooperation, either in London or Basra, is clear and we will seriously express this to British officials," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference.

The Arabic-speaking province saw intermittent ethnic unrest by Iran's Arab minority last year.

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