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KOMPAS.com - Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon has condemned the suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Iran that killed 27 people, Friday (07/16/2010).

Farhan Haq, UN spokesman, said Ban was in Madrid "strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack in Zahedan, Iran."

According to him, the callous act of terrorism is very reprehensible. Jundallah Sunni group claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying the attack was carried out in revenge for the hanging of their leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.

Thursday night a bomb attack aimed at members of Iran's elite forces occurred in the area of Jamia mosque in southeastern Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchestan.

The perpetrators of the suicide attack that detonated the bomb when the masses were celebrating the birth of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, also known as Mayor's Day.

According to Health Minister Marziah Vahid Dastjerdi told Mehr news agency, the attack injured 270 people and 27 people were martyred. It was also mentioned, 11 people were injured in a critical condition.

Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi said, some members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, including killed and wounded in the attack.

Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan. In May 2009, a suicide bomb blast killed 25 people and wounding more than 120 in an attack outside a mosque in Zahedan.

In October 2009, 40 people including 15 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in a bomb attack in the province. That is the most deadly attacks in Iran since the 1980s. Iran hangs Jundallah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, last month.