At least 10 people were killed while dozens others injured in an explosion ripped through a crowd watching a military parade in north-western Kurdish town of Mahabad on Wednesday, media reported. No casualties were reported among the military personnel and political dignitaries attending the annual parade one of several held across the country to commemorate Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. Local officials blamed the blast on militants. Counter-revolutionary groups, by inserting themselves among the people attending the armed forces parade, showed their heinous face, Vahid Jalalzadeh, the provincial governor of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, was quoted as saying. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Kurdish militants have been active in the past in the region which borders Iraq and Turkey. Iranian forces have often clashed Kurdish guerrillas some of whom operate out of bases in northern Iraq.
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