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The Popular Iranian Resistance Movement, which is most commonly known by its name Jundullah, denied in an internet statement that any of the three men executed by the Iranian regime had anything to do with the bombing of Zehdan mosque last Thursday - an attack which the group had taken credit for. The statement indicated that only one of the three men was connected to the group, but had no link with the group’s military activities.

In retaliation for the death of the three men, the group urged Baluchis and Sunnis to execute all settlers in Baluchestan. “We hereby urge all Baluch youths to execute all settlers present in baluchestan, and we shall offer a reward for anybody who kills a settler.”

One of the webmasters of al Falojah militant Islamist forums posted a message urging Iraqi militants in southern Baghdad to attack the procession of Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani which he said will be traveling through al Latifiyah and Yusufiyah on its way to Najaf.
“Start planting your blessed devices along the road to blow his procession,” the webmaster said in his messages posted on Tuesday.

A Sunni Iranian militant group identified as the “Harakt JehadeAhle Sunnat Iran” released a propaganda video of an attack carried out in the city of Shiraz that resembled tapes produced by al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgent groups. The April 12th attack on the Shiite mosque killed 13 and wounded over 200.

The video, which was produced by the “Qadessiyoon Media Brigade,” shows a single shot of a group of men gathered at what seems to be the mosque that was attacked. An explosion occurs and the men are fleeing the scene.

In English text displayed at the beginning of the tape, the group explains that the attack was in retaliation for the “torture and assassination” of Sunni Iranians, the destruction of Sunni mosques and more specifically for the killing of two Sunni Iranian scholars in the city of Iranshahr in April 2008.

There are no known connections between the Sunni Iranian group and al Qaeda. In fact, Iran has accused the U.S. and Britain of training and financing the attackers.

The group seems to have nonetheless learned from al Qaeda’s propaganda techniques. The video opens with verses from the Qur’an, as is the case with many videos produced by al Qaeda and other militant Islamist groups. It also uses a popular jihadi song often used by other groups.

The single shot of the men reacting to the explosion at the mosque is repeated and frozen several times. The jihadi song’s lyrics - “Blow them up, expel them all, hunt them…kill them” - are translated to English and appear as subtitles over the footage and pictures of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeni, Iran’s current Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.