PRESS TV
11/20/2013
The two blasts outside Iran's diplomatic mission in the southern neighborhood of Janah in Beirut left at least 25 people dead, including six Iranian nationals, on Tuesday.
Reports say over 150 others were also injured in the terrorist attacks. The death toll is expected to rise, as many of the wounded are in critical condition.
The statement described the bombings as a “heinous crime” and said the terrorist incident once again displayed the image of “violence and extremism” mainly supported by the Israeli regime and ignorant and narrow-minded governments.
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran…regards the proposal presented by President Hassan Rouhani to the 68th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly on a ‘World Against Violence and Extremism’ as an appropriate ground for countering such ineffective and illegal moves,” the ministry pointed out.
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“We should accept and be able to open a new horizon in which peace will prevail over war, tolerance over violence, progress over bloodletting, justice over discrimination, prosperity over poverty, and freedom over despotism,” Rouhani had said.
The Iranian ministry reiterated its determination to support Lebanon’s stability and national unity and stressed the importance of strengthening unity and solidarity in the Muslim world to counter such terrorist moves.
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An al-Qaeda-linked group, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, has claimed responsibility for the twin bombings.
Iran’s Embassy in Lebanon announced that Iranian Cultural Attaché to Beirut, Ebrahim Ansari, the wife of an Iranian diplomat and four security guards at the embassy were martyred in the terrorist attacks.
In a phone conversation with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman on Tuesday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called for the immediate identification of the perpetrators behind the attack.
The Iranian president also condoled with Suleiman and the Lebanese nation over the deaths and injuries of a number of people in the bombings.
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