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Article: 100 killed as Iranian religious conflicts smoulder
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1994
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A FIRE which raged for about five hours inside the perimeter of
Tehran's Evin prison after a huge explosion there on Friday night
has added to the growing sense of instability and religious
intolerance in Iran.
A revolutionary guerrilla group inside Iran, the Babak
Khorramindin Organisation (BKO), claimed responsibility for the
blast, but the Iranian news agency, Irna, quoted the head of
prisons as saying that a short-circuit had led to a fire setting
off mines near the prison wall.
Yesterday reports reached the West of violent demonstrations
last week in Najaf-Abad, near Isfahan, between the Law and Order
Forces and local people. Despite an official news blackout, the
reports said that more ...