Bombs kill 7, wound 73 in Iran before election

Bomb blasts in Tehran and the southwestern oil city of Ahvaz killed at least seven people and wounded 73 on Sunday, five days before Iran's presidential election.Four bombs in Ahvaz, capital of the partly Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan, targeted government buildings.
"We had six martyrs and 70 wounded," Ahvaz governor Mohammad Jaafar Sarrami told Reuters.The Popular Democratic Front of Ahvaz, which is campaigning for an independent Khuzestan, denied it was behind the attacks, but said another Arab group calling itself the Ahvazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades had claimed responsibility.