Los Angeles Times: Iranian authorities are blaming the United States and Sunni Muslim extremists for the bombing of a mosque Thursday in the country’s southeast that left as many as 23 people dead and scores injured during a Shiite Muslim holiday.
The bombing rocked the provincial capital of Zahedan, where emergency vehicles ferried passengers to local hospitals into the night. The ethnically and religiously mixed region bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan has long been the scene of drug trafficking and tribal banditry.