Israel accuses Iran over Thai blasts

Updated: 07:02, Wednesday February 15, 2012

Israel has accused Iran of responsibility for a series of bomb blasts in Thailand, a day after attacks on its embassies in India and Georgia.
'The attempted attack in Bangkok proves once again that Iran and its proxies are continuing to act in the ways of terror and the latest attacks are an example of that,' said Barak, who is currently in Singapore but spent several hours in the Thai capital on Sunday.
'Iran and Hezbollah are uninhibited sources of terror, they are a danger to the stability of the region and a danger to the stability of the world,' he said, in remarks released by his Tel Aviv office.
Bangkok police said one man, believed to be an Iranian national, was seriously wounded when a device he was carrying exploded in one of a series of blasts in a residential area of the Thai capital.
An Iranian identity card was found next to the wounded man, whose legs were blown off.
The explosions came just 24 hours after two bombs targeted Israeli embassy personnel in India and Georgia, leaving one female diplomat critically wounded.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly blamed Iran, describing it as 'the biggest exporter of terror in the world.'
He also accused the Islamic republic of being responsible, along with Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah, for a series of failed attacks against Israeli targets in Thailand and Azerbaijan in mid-January.