Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pointed a finger of blame at the United States for Sunday’s suicide bombing at a meeting of the Revolutionary Guards and tribal chiefs in Sistan-Baluchestan. ‘This terrorist crime revealed the evil face of enemies of security and unity who are supported by intelligence organisations of some arrogant governments,’ he said on Monday, according to the Isna news agency. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a telephone conversation with President Asif Ali Zardari, charged that those behind the bombing were in Pakistan and needed to be ‘quickly confronted’. ‘Iran and Pakistan have a brotherly relationship, but the presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan is not justifiable,’ the Irna news agency quoted him as saying. ‘The Pakistani government should help to quickly arrest these criminals so that they can be punished,’ the Iranian president said, adding: ‘The criminal terrorists must be seriously confronted by setting up a bilateral timetable.’
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