A parade in Mahabad Iran was hit by a bomb, killing ten people

Jordan Saunders

This past Wednesday a bombing attack occurred during a parade in Kurdish-city in Mahabad; which is in northern Iran near Turkey. The parade was in reference to the Iran-Iraq war that started thirty years ago.  Although the bomb exploded fifty feet away from the parade it killed ten people and harmed about twenty military soldiers.  Most of the people that died were women and children; two of which were wives of military commanders.  The attackers are still unknown, but officials believe to have an idea on which group holds responsibility for the bombing.  Whichever group that created the bomb planned it in the ground near trees with a timer on it. The bomb seemed to be aimed toward the Iran military. Officials believe that a group of Kurdish seperatists are responsible. There are about forth thousand members of the Kurdish seperatists who have been attacking in Turkey in large amounts. With all the bombings and attacks going on in Iran; the government officials are apprehensive of the Kurdish population joining teaming up with the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey; by which they will create a Kurdish nation against the other countries.

The Kurds seem to want power and control of their population; and it does not seem like the attacks and bombing are going to stop. They have rights and beliefs that they are fighting for against the government; in the same way that the government is fighting against them.  This war among these groups needs to stay apart and tend to their own views.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast