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In this picture released by the official IRNA news agency, wreckage of the IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane, which crashed Sunday after it was making an emergency landing, is shown outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/IRNA, Ali Asghar Shadjou)

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In this picture released by the official IRNA news agency, wreckage of the IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane, which crashed Sunday after it was making an emergency landing, is seen outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/IRNA, Ali Asghar Shadjou)

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This picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency shows the scene of the bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of the capital Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed more than 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday -- including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard -- in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo / Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)

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This picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency shows the scene of the bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of the capital Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed more than 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday -- including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard -- in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)

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This picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency shows the scene of the bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of the capital Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed more than 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday -- including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard -- in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)

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This picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency shows the victims of a bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of the capital Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed more than 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday -- including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard -- in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)

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In this picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, bodies of victims of bomb blasts lie on the street, in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of the capital Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed more than 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday _ including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard _ in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)

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This picture released by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency shows the scene of the bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles southeast of Tehran Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)