News wires
Israel accused Iran of orchestrating Monday’s car bombings against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. Two people were wounded in Delhi and the bomb in Tbilisi was discovered before it went off.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. But suspicion fell on Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, which both have deep grievances against the Jewish state, AP reported.
The terror organization Hezbollah recently marked the anniversary of the 2008 assassination of one of its commanders, Imad Mughniyeh, in a bombing widely believed to have been carried out by Israel.
And Iran suspects Israeli involvement in a series of killings of officials and scientists involved in its controversial nuclear program.
Noting that Israel has thwarted other attacks in recent months in Azerbaijan and Thailand, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of lawmakers from his Likud Party that “In all those cases, the elements behind these attacks were Iran and its protege Hezbollah.”
Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia said an explosive device was planted on the car of a driver for the Israeli Embassy.
Shota Utiashvili, spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, said the driver noticed a package attached to his car’s undercarriage on Monday and called police.
Police found a grenade in the package and it was defused, Utiashvili said. He did not specify where the car was parked when the device was discovered.
