Iran today did not exactly welcome President Obama’s emphatic expression of sympathy for and denunciation of a deadly terrorist bombing in the southern city of Chabahar.
Initial news reports were confused, but apparently two suicide bombers ignited themselves in a downtown religious procession, killing a reported 39 and wounding scores more.
Obama (full text below) called the bombings “disgraceful and cowardly,” and added: “The United States condemns all acts of terrorism wherever they occur.”
