Israel Accuses Iran of Attack in India

Four people have been injured in New Delhi, India, in a bombing that targeted Israeli diplomats. The attack occurred just a few hundred yards from the prime minister’s residence. An assailant on a motorcycle attached a bomb to a van carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat as she went to pick her children up from school. The bomb exploded, injuring the diplomat’s wife and her driver, along with two bystanders traveling in another car. Amateur footage showed the diplomatic minivan on fire following the explosion, with one of its back doors blown off.

Almost simultaneously, a grenade was discovered attached to the car of an Israeli Embassy driver in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. No one was injured in that incident.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed them on Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist organization. Netanyahu also said Israel had thwarted similar attacks in recent months on its embassies in Azerbaijan and Thailand.

As Western powers have levied more and more sanctions against Iran, the Islamic Republic has threatened to project its terrorism through its proxies. If these attacks were sanctioned by Iran, as Netanyahu and analysts believe, they add to the heap of evidence showing that Tehran’s ability to project terrorism is no idle threat.