TWO suicide bomb attacks outside a mosque killed 39 people and wounded more than 100 during a Shi’ite religious ceremony in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar yesterday, local media reported.

A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of south-eastern Iran that has been at the centre of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.

The Irishman kidnapped in Iran last November has travelled to Ireland to visit his relatives following his release just over a week ago.

Iran today urged Ireland not to pay a €5m ransom demanded by kidnappers of Irish citizen Aidan Leahy.

Four people were killed in southeastern Iran when police put down a riot sparked by their shooting dead a motorcyclist who defied orders to stop, a local MP said today.