Iran condemns embassy attacks

Tue, 24 Apr 2007

Majlis speaker, Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, has condemned the terrorist car bomb attacks near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Haddad-Adel stressed "Such terrorist acts are unable to weaken Iran-Iraq determination," adding: "These terrorist acts are a continuation of attacks that cause bloodshed and slaughter innocent Iraqi people everyday. They are aimed to insecure and destabilize the nation."

Referring to UN resolutions on Iraq he said, "The invaders negligence in maintaining security in Iraq and sheltering suspicious elements, carrying out such non-humanitarian acts, is an ambiguity."

No Iranian diplomats were hurt in the blasts, and there was no damage to the Embassy building in Baghdad's Salhiya neighborhood.

The attack follows two explosions in front of the embassy on Monday that killed one and wounded six others.

Tuesday's bombing, which wounded four, is the third such attack near the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad. In February, a bomb planted inside a bus parked near the building killed two and injured eight.