Wife of Israeli diplomat wounded in car blast near New Delhi embassy

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Suspected attack comes with attempted attack in Georgian capital of Tbilisi; both incidents come one day after 4-year anniversary of Hezbollah's deputy leader's assassination.

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"The wife of an Israeli diplomat was moderately wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded outside of Israel's embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Haaretz has learned.

The wounded woman in question is the wife of the Defense Ministry's representative to India.

The incident came one day after the fourth anniversary marking the assasination of Hezbollah's deputy leader, Imad Mughniyeh, which the Islamist organization blames on Israel."

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"Also on Monday, a Georgian worker employed by the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi alerted police after noticing a strange object attached to a car assigned to the Israeli envoy to the country."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wife-of-israeli-diplomat-wounded-in-car-blast-near-new-delhi-embassy-1.412661

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1. PM: Iran responsible for attacks on Israeli embassies

Netanyahu vows that Israel will continue to cooperate with local authorities overseas; fight Iran-sponsored terror worldwide

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189080,00.html

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"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and Hezbollah of being behind Monday's double terror attack on the Israeli embassies in India and Georgia.

Earlier, an explosion hit an Israeli diplomatic car near the embassy in New Delhi, injuring the wife of a diplomat stationed with the Defense Ministry's mission in India. In Georgia, an explosive device was found in a Tbilisi embassy employee's car and was neutralized safely."

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"Netanyahu, discussing the recently foiled attempts to target Israelis in Thailand and to harm the Israeli ambassador in Azerbaijan, told the Likud faction that, "We have been able to thwart such attacks with the cooperation of local authorities. In all cases, Iran and its protégé Hezbollah were behind the attempts."

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2. Witnesses in New Delhi say motorcyclist attached bomb to Israeli's car

Tali Yehoshua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry's representative to India, was moderately injured outside Israel's embassy in the Indian capital; suspected attack comes with attempted attack in Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

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"Witnesses in New Delhi say the bomb that moderately injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat on Monday was attached to her car by a man driving a motorcycle, India's police chief told reporters.

Tali Yehoshua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry's representative to India, was taken to the American Hospital in the city after being wounded by shrapnel, and a decision whether to transport her to Israel is expected to be made in the next few hours."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/witnesses-in-new-delhi-say-motorcyclist-attached-bomb-to-israeli-s-car-1.412695

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3. Uh oh...

In New Delhi, Tbilisi: What goes around, comes around

"Once again, there’s a taboo against stating the obvious. It’s an open secret, and a source of great Israeli satisfaction, that the Mossad killed Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh four years and a day ago, and that the Mossad was behind a half-dozen killings of Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as explosions at Iranian military sites. Israel didn’t have to do any of that – we have the power to deter attacks by Hizbullah and Iran, we don’t have to pick fights. But we did, so this is what we get. Israel provoked the car bomb attack today on the wife of the diplomat in New Delhi, and we’re making life dangerous for Israelis and Jews everywhere."

http://972mag.com/in-new-delhi-tbilisi-what-goes-around-comes-around/35365/

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4. Because this is the first time an Israeli embassy has ever been attacked.

Fact is countries like Iran don't need a justification to try and kill Jews worldwide. It is however within their interest to have useful idiots parrot the lines "Well if Israel stopped trying to protect itself we'd be good little boyscouts, promise, we're just so gosh darn provoked into bombings."

Although you have to marvel at the duality of the comparisons. Diplomats and their wives are just as valid a target as someone actively engaging in weapons building (lets not bullshit that Iran's nuclear program isn't exactly that).

Then again, I'm not taking the position that I believe the attacks on Iran's scientists are done by Israel, that hasn't been proven to me.

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5. Israel not expected to respond harshly to India, Georgia attacks

'Iran is behind these attacks; it is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world,' Netanyahu says in a meeting of his Likud Knesset faction.

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"Israel is not expected to respond harshly to on Monday's twin attacks on Israeli representatives in India and Georgia, Israeli sources said Monday night.

In one attack, the wife of Israel's defense attache in India was moderately wounded in a car bombing outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi. In the other, a bomb attached to a car belonging to the Israeli embassy in the Georgian capital Tbilisi was discovered before anyone was hurt.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly accused Iran of responsibility for the attacks, which occurred one day after the fourth anniversary of the killing of a senior Hezbollah official, Imad Mughniyeh. Both Hezbollah and Iran have long blamed Israel for Mughniyeh's assassination, and Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed revenge. But Tehran, predictably, denied any involvement in Monday's attacks, with the Iranian ambassador to India terming Netanyahu's accusation "nothing but lies."

A senior Foreign Ministry official, however, countered that this accusation was backed by both intelligence information and evidence collected at the scene of both crimes, particularly an examination of the bomb that was defused in Tbilisi. Taken together, he said, this information indicated direct involvement by official Iranian entities in the attacks. "Iran is behind these attacks; it is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world," Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud Knesset faction on Monday, after noting that "Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah" were behind several previous "attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries" in recent months."

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/sources-israel-not-expected-to-respond-harshly-to-india-georgia-attacks-1.412727