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I don't know why the bombings in southern Iran aren't getting more attention, but they should be:

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected Iranian claims that British soldiers were involved in two bombings that killed at least nine people in the city of Ahvaz, describing the accusation as "ludicrous."

"The Iranian government's suggestion that we somehow had a hand in yesterday's bomb explosions in southern Iran is obviously ludicrous and deserves to be treated with scorn by the international community," Blair's office said today in a statement read over the telephone.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said British soldiers equipped and directed the perpetrators of the two bombings, according to a report by the IRNA news agency. He said British forces had provided "safe haven" and `"practical and extensive facilities" for the attacks.

You know, that's a mighty big accusation to make. Roger L. Simon wonders aloud:

What's interesting is why the Iranians would want to up the ante with the British in this way. The mullahs seem to be pushing, pushing, pushing for some reason.

I'm not sure what Simon's alluding to. The Iranians do have a habit of trying to stir up Prime Minister Blair, but this may be just as simple as picking a fight with our junior partner to see what it does to the E3 power arrangement (and the Sino-Russian responses).

But if Ahmadinejad and the other nutbags are trying to lay a pretext for hostilities of some kind against Great Britain (and its thousands of armed soldiers next door in southern Iraq), then they are stupider than I feared to guess. Do these rug salesmen realize ---if even Chiraq is making nuclear threats--- how certainly their own fates are sealed if they mix it up with Tommy?

Like I've been hearing all month: 2006 is the Year of Iran.