LAST MONTH it was an ambush; today it's a bomb:

At least six people were killed and 40 injured in two blasts in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, police said.

The two bombs exploded outside a privately-run bank and a government office in the city in Khuzestan province, which borders Iraq.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been due to give a speech at a religious centre nearby.

But his office told the BBC the visit had been cancelled due to bad weather.

And in neither case it had anything to do with the fact that loony Ahmadinejad was supposed to be there. Yeah, right.

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