Iran demands UN condemn attack

UNITED NATIONS: Iran is demanding that the UN Security Council strongly condemn a bomb attack last weekend that killed dozens of people, six of them commanders in the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards.

Yesterday, throngs of uniformed mourners carried the flag-draped coffins of the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces, General Nourali Shoushtari, and other officers blown up by a suicide bomber in volatile southeastern Iran on Sunday.

Fifteen Guards members were among the 42 people killed, Iranian media reported. Tribal chiefs and other civilians also died.