UPDATE 2 – Iran: 20 Revolutionary Guards killed in suicide bombing

ADDS IRANIAN FM STATEMENT, DETAILS</p> <p>By Muhammet Kursun and Ahmet Dursun</p> <p>TEHRAN/ANKARA (AA) – At least 20 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran, the country’s official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. </p> <p>At least 20 others were injured in the attack in Sistan and Baluchistan province — Iran's second-largest.</p> <p>In a statement, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said a bomb-laden vehicle targeted a bus carrying personnel. </p> <p>The Jaish al-Adl (“Army of Justice”), which claims to support Sunni rights in Shia Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack.</p> <p>Iranian government officials have yet to make a statement.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif took Twitter: “Is it no coincidence that Iran is hit by terror on the very day that #WarsawCircus begins?” </p> <p>“Especially when cohorts of same terrorists cheer it from Warsaw streets &amp; support it with Twitter bots? US seems to always make the same wrong choices, but expect different results,” Zarif added.</p> <p>Representatives of several Arab and Western states attended a U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference held in Warsaw on Feb. 13-14. The international ministerial meeting will discuss peace and security in the Middle East, and critical issues such as terrorism, missile development and proliferation.</p> <p>Separately, a Sunni cleric in Iran, Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi condemned the attack.</p> <p>Ismaeelzahi said people of Sistan and Baluchistan were suffering from such attacks: “The only victims of [such attacks] are our people who want to live in peace and security.”</p> <p>Meanwhile, the governorship of the province declared three-day period of mourning after the attack. </p> <p>Last September an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, in southwestern Iran killed 25 people — including Revolutionary Guard members — and wounded dozens, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years.