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Mar 8, 2021
India’s central counter-terrorism agencies concluded that an Iranian unit was behind a recent terror attack launched near the Israeli Embassy in Delhi.
By TPS
The bomb that went off outside the Israeli embassy in Delhi in late January was plotted and guided by Iran, Indian media outlets reported Monday.
The blast on January 29 caused no casualties and no harm was caused to the embassy’s building. The explosive charge caused damage to several cars on the street.
India’s central counterterrorism agencies’ investigations have led them to the conclusion that the Quds force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) foreign operations unit, was behind the terror attack.
Site of the explosion outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, Jan. 29, 2021.
Iran guided the explosion outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, on January 29, utilizing local elements, Indian officials told The Hindustan Times on Thursday.
More than a month after the explosive device went off outside the Israel embassy, Indiaâs counterterrorism agencies have concluded that the Iranian Quds force was behind the plot, but the device was planted by a local Indian Shia sectâalthough it is not yet clear if the people who planted the bomb had also prepared it.
A low-intensity explosion happened near the Israel Embassy in Delhi, nature of explosion being ascertained. Some broken glasses at spot. No injuries reported; further investigation underway pic.twitter.com/xqIllrCZOQ
The Walla news site said Saturday that a previously unheard of group called “Jaish ul-Hind” took responsibility for the Friday explosion in a claim on the Telegram messaging service.
According to the report, the statement said the attack was in fact an act of revenge against the Indian government and that further attacks were expected, but with no mention of Israel.
Policemen stand guard near the Israeli Embassy after a blast in the area in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Rishi Lekhi)
A police statement described the Friday explosion as caused by a “very low-intensity improvised device” that blew out the windows on three nearby cars and said a preliminary investigation “suggests a mischievous attempt to create a sensation.”
Police officials examine the site of an explosion near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi
NEW DELHI: February 13, 2012. It was quarter past three and Tal Yehoshua Koren, the wife of an Israeli diplomat, was on the way to pick up her children from school. Seated in the rear of a Toyota Innova car bearing the number 109 CD 35, Koren reached the Aurangzeb Road traffic light when the vehicle suddenly went up in flames. Rushed to a nearby hospital, Koren survived the attack, which prompted an international investigation into the blast.
Delhi Police s Special Cell did not have much to go on initially. The probe revealed that a motorcycle rider came from behind and attached a magnetic explosive device to the rear of the vehicle. However, when Israel s Mossad joined the investigation, the two agencies unravelled a larger conspiracy that pointed at the role of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force.