Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 32

8-August-2005

Iran

Blast Outside BPs Tehran Office

A small bomb exploded on the morning of 2 August in a dustbin outside a Tehran office block, in which BP and a number of other international companies are based. There were no casualties, but there was some damage to the building and nearby windows were broken. British Ambassador Richard Dalton told reporters: It is clearly a serious incident, but we do not know who the target of the explosion was. The...