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  • Iran has promised a swift and crushing response to a suicide attack in the country's Sistan-Baluchestan province that killed at least 35 people, including 11 Revolutionary Guards commanders.
  • a Sunni group called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, claimed responsibility for the attack.
  • "We consider the recent terrorist attack to be the result of US action. This is the sign of America's animosity against our country," Ali Larijani, Iran's parliamentary speaker, said.
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  • Washington has denied involvement with the group, which it has labelled as a "terrorist" organisation, and condemned the attack.
  • "Reports of alleged US involvement are completely false," he said.
  • Tehran has also suggested that Saudi Arabia and Britain have supported Jundallah
  • Other analysts have rejected the idea that the West supports Jundallah and other ethnic groups.
  • Ali Nouri Zada, the director of the Arab-Iranian Studies Centre in London, told Al Jazeera: "It's very easy to point at Saudi, to the British and Americans ... [but] it [Jundallah] is a local organisation,"
  • "It was expected because Jundallah have issued a statement saying they were going to carry out a suicide attack against those who align themselves with the Revolutionary Guards against their group."
  • The blast occurred ahead of a meeting between Revolutionary Guards commanders and tribal chiefs, part of efforts to foster Shia-Sunni unity in the region. About 10 senior tribal figures were among the dead.
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