Revenge?
It is perhaps indicative of how tense things are here right now that Iran has taken the trouble to deny Prime Minister Netanyahu's accusation that it was responsible for the attempted bombings at Israel's embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi on Monday.Iran rejects as "sheer lies" accusations that it was involved in a bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in India, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Islamic Republic's ambassador to New Delhi as saying on Monday, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu implicated Tehran and its ally Hezbollah in the attacks.But there's one small problem with Iran's denial: The attack in New Delhi looked remarkably like attacks perpetrated on Iranian nuclear scientists over the last few years; it just wasn't done as professionally and therefore it did not kill anyone.
"Any terrorist attack is condemned (by Iran) and we strongly reject the untrue comments by an Israeli official," Mehdi Nabizadeh was quoted as saying by IRNA. "These accusations are untrue and sheer lies, like previous times."
In a strike virtually identical to attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists, U.S. sources say a passing motorcyclist attached a shaped charge to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in New Delhi, India. The driver and the wife of Israel's deputy defense ministry representative to India were wounded.The Israeli who was injured in New Delhi was Tali Yehoshua-Koren.
Television footage showed flames pouring from a minivan with its back door blown out. The attack took place at 4 p.m. on Race Track Road, close to the Israeli Embassy.
A single source confirms that a failed attack against an Israeli car in Tblisi, Georgia used a similar method, but the bomb did not detonate. A worker at the embassy alerted local police after seeing a black plastic bag attached to the bottom of the Israeli envoy's car. The bag held a hand grenade.
No attackers have been identified in either incident. An unconfirmed report says that a third Israeli facility in Amsterdam may also have been targeted.
Here is Prime Minister Netanyahu accusing Iran. Let's go to the videotape (sorry, Hebrew only).
Hmmm.
Labels: Georgia, Hezbullah, Imad Mughniyah, India, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat, Islamic terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:01 PM
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