Iranian 'diplomat' caught gathering intel on Israeli embassy flees Uruguay
An Iranian 'diplomat' who was caught gathering intelligence on the Israeli embassy in Uruguay has
fled that country.
Ahmed Sabatgold, 32, a political consultant in the Iranian embassy
in Montevideo, was suspected of being involved in placing an explosive
device near the new Israeli embassy in early January, the Uruguayan El
Observador newspaper reported Sunday.
Haaretz reported on Friday that the Uruguayan government had expelled an Iranian diplomat
on suspicion of involvement in the attempted bomb attack on the Israeli
embassy. The publication caused a great deal of embarrassment in
Montevideo, where the government had tried to keep the affair quiet so
as not to damage its relations with Tehran.
After hours of silence from Uruguayan President
Jose Mujica and Foreign Minister Luis Almagro, the country’s foreign and
interior ministries issued a joint statement that shed some more light
on what looks like continued Iranian attempts to collect intelligence in
preparation for an attack on the Israeli embassy in Montevideo.
Given the Uruguayans’ handling of the affair,
Sabatgold had time to flee Uruguay before the Uruguayans expelled him,
which allowed the ministries to note in their joint statement that the
Iranian diplomat had not been expelled.
There's much more.
Read the whole thing. What ought to be done is that Uruguay (which actually has a sizable Jewish community due to the beef industry) and other countries in which Iranian 'diplomats' and terrorists have attacked Israelis ought to shut their Iranian embassies. But they won't.
Labels: Iranian embassy, Islamic terrorism, Uruguay
Video from Beirut embassy bomb blast
Here's video from Tuesday morning's bomb blast at the Iranian embassy in Beirut. So far,
23 people are dead and 146 injured.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip for video:
MFS - The Other News).
This is from the first link.
Security camera footage showed a man in an explosives belt rushing
towards the outer wall of the embassy before blowing himself up,
Lebanese officials said. They said the second explosion was caused by a
car bomb parked two buildings away from the compound.
In a Twitter
post, Sheikh Sirajeddine Zuraiqat, the religious guide of the Abdullah
Azzam Brigades, said the group had carried out the attack. "It was a
double martyrdom operation by two of the Sunni heroes of Lebanon," he
wrote.
Shi'ite Iran actively supports Syrian President Bashar
Assad against Sunni Muslim rebels, who are backed and armed by Sunni
powers Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Syrian rebel groups, some linked to
al-Qaida, have threatened to take their battle from Syria to Lebanon in
response to the military involvement of Iran and its Lebanese Shi'ite
guerrilla ally Hezbollah alongside Assad's forces.
Iran's cultural attache to Lebanon was killed in the blast.
Israel has
completely denied any involvement.
Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi on Tuesday rejected a claim by Iran's Ambassador to Beirut that Israel was behind twin blasts that killed at least 23 people, including an Iranian diplomat in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday.
Hanegbi said that it was quite humorous that a country that has perpetuated terror around the world, now is blaming others.
His comments came after Al Jazeera reported that "the Iranian
ambassador in Lebanon, who escaped from the attack uninjured, is blaming
Israel for the attack."
Hanegbi responded, "We are blamed for
anything that happens in the Middle East. Sometimes these are things we
take responsibility for because they have to do with Israel's security.
But Israel's security gains nothing by bloodshed in Beirut or in any
Arab capital or state, and is the result of tension in Lebanon following
the decision of Hezbollah - or Iran forcing Hezbollah - to participate
in [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's effort to survive in Syria.
Israel has nothing to with this attack or any recent bomb attacks in Lebanon, Hanegbi added.
Hmmm.
Labels: Beirut, Hezbullah, Iran, Iranian embassy, Lebanon
Hmmm... 7 people killed in bomb blast at Iranian embassy in Beirut
At least seven people have been killed in two bomb blasts targeting the
Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Two explosions apparently targeting the Iranian embassy hit the
Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said, damaging
at least six buildings in the embassy compound.
One of the sources said seven people were killed.
He said the blasts were caused by two rockets fired on the area, in the
southern part of the city, while another said a car bomb was the source
of the explosions.
Southern Beirut is
Hezbullah territory. I wonder how the Mossad did that. Hmmm.
Labels: Beirut, Hezbullah, Iran, Iranian embassy, Lebanon
Iran to UK: 'You'll pay for this'
In an earlier post, I reported that Britain had
shut down Iran's embassy in London and ordered all of the mullahcracy's 'diplomats to leave within 48 hours. Now,
Iran is threatening Britain for shutting down its embassy in London.
Iranian parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Aladdin Burucerdi warned Wednesday that the UK will suffer "the consequences" of its decision to expel Iranian diplomats stationed in London following the storming of its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.
Following the announcement by UK's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday, Burucerdi called other European countries to avoid taking similar measures, after Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy had already taken diplomatic steps against Iran.
"We recommend that other European countries avoid following in Britain's and the Unites States' footsteps," Burucerdi said. "The parliament approved downgrading the diplomatic relations with Britain but Iran's public is pleased that the British diplomats are no longer in Tehran."
France, The Netherlands, Italy and Germany have all recalled their ambassadors to Iran for 'consultations.'
Endangering diplomats is one of the few things that can even rile up the Europeans, and Iran's failure to protect the British embassy on Tuesday has apparently touched a raw nerve. Whether this will translate into a new willingness to impose effective sanctions against Iran even at the cost of each individual country's trade with the Islamic state remains to be seen.
Labels: British embassy, Iranian embassy, London, Tehran
