*TEHRAN (FNA)- Foreign countries have clearly had a hand in the recent terrorist attacks in southeastern Iran, a prominent Iranian legislator said in a meeting with the Swiss envoy to Tehran on Sunday. *
Head of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks in a meeting with Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Livia Leu Agosti, referring to the twin blasts in a mosque in Zahedan in Sistan and Balouchestan province in which 27 were killed and hundreds more were injured. Political sources said that the Pakistan-based Jundollah terrorist group, directly sponsored and supported by Washington, has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Boroujerdi further noted the confessions made by Jundollah ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi about the United States' support for Jundollah's terrorist attacks inside Iran, and reiterated that the involvement of foreign elements in the recent blasts in Zahedan is "fully obvious". He said Iranians will try hard to achieve the valuable goals of the Islamic Revolution under any kind of conditions, and reiterated that such acts of terrorism will in no way "impair the Iranian nation's will and determination on this path". Abdolmalek Rigi confessed after his arrest in late February that his group was assisted and supported by the US and disclosed that he was on route to Bishkek to meet a high-ranking US official at a nearby military base when he was arrested by Iranian security forces. Rigi also said that he and the US official were going to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory. Iran and the US severed ties in 1979 and in absence of formal diplomatic ties, the Swiss embassy represents the United States' interests in Iran. But the news about Boroujerdi's meeting with the Swiss envoy is also important from a different angle considering the media reports which alleged on Saturday that the Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Livia Leu Agosti had been detained in a northeastern border city in Iran's North Khorassan province by security guards. Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast on Saturday evening dismissed the reports on the detention of Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Livia Leu Agosti as "neither accurate nor true". "The news released by some websites about the arrest of the Swiss envoy in one of the cities of the North Khorassan province is neither accurate nor true and the incident, as they described it, is not correct," Mehman-Parast said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
