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At least 21 people, including elite Revolutionary Guards, were killed and more than 100 wounded in two suicide bomb attacks at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday.The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah claimed the responsibility of the attacks, telling Al Arabiyeh television in an email that it had carried them out in retaliation for Iran's execution in June of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.Rigi was hanged after being convicted of carrying out other deadly attacks. Jundollah says it is fighting for the rights of Iran's Sunni Muslim minority.
