Iran denies Israeli embassy attacks
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Iran denied involvement in the Monday's attacks on the Israeli embassies in Georgia and India and accused Israel of carrying out the attacks itself.
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Four people, including an Israeli diplomat, were injured on Feb. 13, 2012, when a bomb hit a car of the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India. [chinanews.com] |
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast dismissed the accusations as "propaganda war." Iran rejected the charges made by the Zionist regime of Israel, he said.
He also said that Iran condemned all kinds of terrorist acts, Xinhua reported.
A bomb wrecked a car taking an Israeli embassy official to pick up her children from school on Monday in New Delhi, India. Four people, including the Israeli diplomat, were injured.
Also on Monday, a staff member of the Israeli embassy in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi discovered a bomb attached to his car when he was heading for home from the embassy. The bomb was later defused by the Georgian police.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday laid direct blame for the two attacks on Iran and Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah.
"In the last few months, we have been witnessing to several attempts to harm Israelis and Jews in a number of countries: in Azerbaijan, in Thailand, and elsewhere... In all of the cases, the entities behind the attacks were Iran and its collaborator, Hezbollah," Netanyahu said at a meeting of the Knesset (parliament) ruling Likud faction Monday afternoon, according to a statement from the prime minister's office.
"This just means that the State of Israel and its citizens face a daily threat of terror, both physical and diplomatic. We know exactly who's responsible for the attack and who planned it, and we're not going to take it lying down," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was quoted by the Ha'aretz daily as saying after Monday's attacks.
Israel "will fight terror, both within its borders, and beyond them", the foreign minister vowed.
The Israeli embassies and consulates worldwide raised alert after the incidents.
