Iran suspected of backing new suicide attacks

"SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq -- A series of suicide bombings in previously peaceful northern Iraq has aroused suspicions that elements of the Iranian regime are backing efforts to destabilize the region.
At least 85 persons have died and hundreds have been injured in three attacks over the past two months. An attack that killed the security chief and four others in the northeastern town of Halabja in June was the first of its kind in Sulaymaniyah province since the fall of Baghdad.
Hours earlier, an explosion killed 20 military recruits in the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
A man calling himself Molla Abbas took responsibility for both attacks. "Our campaign will escalate," he said in a phone call to the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati."
Washington Times