Bomb defused in Iranian plane toilet

IRANIAN security officials defused a bomb planted on a plane carrying 131 passengers, officials said yesterday, the latest incident of violence ahead of next month’s presidential election.

The attempted attack occurred on a Kish Air flight headed to Tehran from the oil-rich western city of Ahvaz near the border with Iraq, the Fars news agency reported.

The incident occurred just two days after 25 people were killed in a bomb attack on a mosque in Zahedan in south-eastern Iran claimed by a shadowy Sunni rebel group.