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Iran denies involvements in Israeli embassy attacks: spokesman
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-02-14 01:30

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman denied accusations by Israel against the Islamic republic over Monday's attacks on the Israeli embassies in Georgia and India, the Arabic-language Al-Alam state television said.

Ramin Mehmanparast dismissed the accusations as "propaganda war, " saying that Iran rejects the charges made by the Zionist regime of Israel.

Iran condemns all kinds of terrorist acts, Mehmanparast said.

Four people, including an Israeli diplomat, were injured Monday when a bomb hit a car of the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India.

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.

Source:Xinhua 
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