Tweet
Iran blames Beirut deadly bomb attack on Israel
October 20, 2012 - 14:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran on Saturday, Oct 20, condemned a car bomb
attack in Beirut and suggested that Israel was to blame.
A senior Israeli official dismissed the suggestion as "beyond
pathetic", Reuters reported.
"This action was taken with the aim of sowing dissension among
different currents and segments of the Lebanese people and was
conducted by an element who has never had in mind the interests of the
Lebanese people and government and who only strives for its own impure
interests and goals," said a statement posted on the Iranian Foreign
Ministry's website.
"Without a doubt the main enemy of the people of Lebanon and the
region is the Zionist regime (Israel), which benefits from insecurity
and instability in the region," ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast
said, according to the statement.
It offered no evidence for the suggestion of Israeli involvement.
Asked about Mehmanparast's remarks, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman
Yigal Palmor said: "After the Iranian regime accused Israel of even
the bad weather conditions prevailing in Iran, is there anything at
all that they would not automatically blame on Israel? This is beyond
pathetic. It's pathological."
October 20, 2012 - 14:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran on Saturday, Oct 20, condemned a car bomb
attack in Beirut and suggested that Israel was to blame.
A senior Israeli official dismissed the suggestion as "beyond
pathetic", Reuters reported.
"This action was taken with the aim of sowing dissension among
different currents and segments of the Lebanese people and was
conducted by an element who has never had in mind the interests of the
Lebanese people and government and who only strives for its own impure
interests and goals," said a statement posted on the Iranian Foreign
Ministry's website.
"Without a doubt the main enemy of the people of Lebanon and the
region is the Zionist regime (Israel), which benefits from insecurity
and instability in the region," ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast
said, according to the statement.
It offered no evidence for the suggestion of Israeli involvement.
Asked about Mehmanparast's remarks, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman
Yigal Palmor said: "After the Iranian regime accused Israel of even
the bad weather conditions prevailing in Iran, is there anything at
all that they would not automatically blame on Israel? This is beyond
pathetic. It's pathological."