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Times Online: The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge against Britain and the United States whom he claims backed the group that killed six commanders. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the Guards commander-in-chief, said that he had seen documents indicating direct ties between Jundollah, which carried out yesterday’s suicide bombing in southern Iran, and the US, British and “unfortunately” the Pakistani intelligence organisations. The explosion killed 42 people. The incident threatens to overshadow talks between Iran and global powers in Vienna today about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

PressTV: Russia is ready to join Iran in the fight against terrorism after the bombing of the Republican guards carried out by Pakistani-based Jundallah. The group’s leader, Abdolmalik Rigi, received $100,000 from the US to fuel sectarianism in Iran. US officials had advised Jundallah to ’stage deadly guerrilla raids inside the Islamic Republic, kidnap Iranian officials and execute them on camera’, all as part of a systematic objective to overthrow the Iranian government’.

Guardian: Recount by UN-backed watchdog ends with Afghan president’s tally falling below the 50% required for outright victory. A UN-backed election watchdog has declared invalid hundreds of thousands of votes for Afghanistan’s president in the disputed August election, apparently stripping Hamid Karzai of outright victory and setting the stage for a second round.