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Iran vowed revenge on Britain and the pearl jewelry US yesterday after blaming them for a devastating suicide attack against the elite Revolutionary Guards that killed 42 people, including six senior commanders.

The bombing, at a Revolutionary Guards gathering in the turbulent southeast of the country, was the worst attack on the powerful unit in recent years. Responsibility was swiftly claimed by Jundallah, a militant Sunni group that has regularly attacked the Guards in its battle against the pearl earrings Government and the Shia majority. It is thought to operate across the lawless border with Pakistan.

Last night Islamabad’s Ambassador to Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, which protested against “the use of Pakistani territory by the terrorists” against Iran. But the harshest words were reserved for the US and Britain, which Tehran accused of backing Jundallah in an attempt to overthrow the Islamic regime. The Guards blamed the bombing on “terrorists” backed by “the pearl jewellry Great Satan America and its ally Britain”.

An official military statement added: “Not in the distant future we will take revenge. There is no doubt that this savage and inhuman act falls within the Satanic strategy of the foreigners and enemies of the regime, who are trying to break the unity among the Shias and Sunnis.”

Iranian accusations of Western backing for freshwater perl jewelry Jundallah, the Sunni rebel group, may not be as fanciful as they seem.

Tehran often blames the United States and Britain for any internal unrest, including the uproar after President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election. But rumours of support for dissident militia groups such as Jundallah have far broader backing.

The group, which also calls itself the Iranian People’s Resistance Movement, was founded in 2002 and started its armed campaign in 2005. Its main cause is defending Shia Iran’s Sunni minority, concentrated in its poorest province, Sistan-Baluchistan.

As the Taleban evolved as Pakistan’s tool of influence in pearl necklace Afghanistan, so Jundallah evolved through shifting alliances with other parties.
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Iran accuses the United States and Britain of backing Jundallah’s operations from Pakistani territory with Islamabad’s support, despite denials from the group. An outcry followed a 2007 ABC television report that alleged that US and Pakistani advice was given to Jundallah to help it in its attacks on Iran.

In 2008 the American journalist Seymour Hersh reported that United States congressional leaders had secretly agreed to President Bush’s $400 million (£245 million) funding request to wholesale pearl necklace give Washington a free hand in arming and funding militant groups such as Jundallah.

Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian Middle East analyst, told The Times that the success of yesterday’s attack could point to outside help. “It is possible that both are involved, since the British and pearl jewelry Americans are involved in a tug-of-war in that region,” he said. “The fact remains that intelligence was of a better quality than in any other time. They managed to assassinate the deputy head of the Ground Forces. This is a huge hit for the Jundallah.”

The timing of the attacks, in the middle of delicate nuclear negotiations and on the eve of the next meeting, will convince Tehran that the West is closely involved. “It is a sign of weakness for Iran. The West has influence with this group and it is something they can use in talks with Iran,” he said.

Many people working in the criminal justice system instinctively side with offenders because they want to give them a second chance, says the Government’s neighbourhood crime adviser. This leaves the public thinking that the system is set up to meet the needs of criminals rather than the victims of crime and  freshwater pearl necklace the wider public, she warns.

Louise Casey said that resistance to giving the public more information about what happens to criminals comes from people working in the system who do not want to stigmatise offenders.

Ms Casey told The Times: “I think if you spend a lot of time with offenders you start to hear that they have had tough lives and you start to understand why they freshwater pearl earrings have ended up offending in the first place. You are a human being and you start to feel for these people. That is human.”

However, Ms Casey added: “I think they miss something. The public want a criminal justice system that is not the criminal’s justice system. They really want a public justice system.”
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Research she has conducted shows that two thirds of the public think the akoya pearl ring system respects the rights of the offender more than the rights of victims.

She said that, although the findings were unfair on the police and local councils, efforts had to be made to change public perception. After a decade-long struggle that ran into opposition in the Home Office and Probation Service, criminals made to do unpaid work in the community have been required to wear orange jackets since December 2008. Ms Casey, who recommended the introduction of the jackets, said that resistance to the idea came from people in the criminal justice system who did not understand that the turquoise jewelry public needed to see “visible consequences for those who break the law”.