IRNA- The Supreme Leader of Iran�s Islamic Revolution says perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack on border patrol forces in the southeast have links with intelliegence services both in the region and other countries.


�It is evidently certain that the perpetrators of this crime are connected to the intelligence services of some of the countries inside as well as outside the region,� reads a statement by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of Iran�s Islamic Revolution, issued on the occasion of a funeral ceremony for 27 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) held in the central city of Isfahan on Saturday.

The statement calls on �the country's governmental bodies in charge� to �investigate the matter'.

On Wednesday, 27 members of IRGC border forces, aboard a bus, were killed when an explosive-laden car went off as their bus was outspeeding it. The terrorist attack left 13 other IRGC members wounded. The suicide attack took place on a road that connects Zahedan, provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, to Khash, a small town close to the Pakistani border.