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Video: Iran's Guards under attack
Dozens killed, including 11 Iranian elite officers, in suicide attack.
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2009 16:40 GMT

At least 11 commanders of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have been killed and dozens of others injured in a suicide attack near the nation's southeastern frontier with Pakistan.

The attack marks an escalation in hostilities between Iran's leadership and the Baluchis, one of the nation's many disgruntled ethnic and religious minorities.

Nazanine Moshiri has this report.
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