Suicide Bomb Kills Revolutionary Guard Commanders

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Suicide Bomb Kills Revolutionary Guard Commanders

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit / / / / / Two blasts in Iran's restive southeast on Sunday killed at least 26 people, including five senior Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, and injured as many as 60 others, according to state media./ Gen. Nour Ali Shoushtari, shown here in 2008, was killed in a suicide attack in the Iranian city of Pisheen, near the ...

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Oct 18, 2009

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