MP Raad says attack on Iranian Embassy in Beirut an Israeli message

   
Head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc MP Mohammad Raad said on Saturday that the suicide attack that targeted the Iranian Embassy in south Beirut’s Bir Hassan region was an Israeli message that aimed at destroying national unity among Lebanese nationals.      

MP Raad added that the role played by the Iranian Republic which aims at strengthening its position in the world and supporting the Resistance in face of the Zionist occupation should be praised.         

A double suicide attack targeted on Tuesday, November 19 the Iranian embassy in south Beirut’s Bir Hassan region, killing at least 23 people, wounding 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.        

Live footage from local news channels showed charred bodies on the ground as flames rose from the remains of several vehicles. Aid workers and residents carried away some of the victims on blankets.              

Caretaker Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil stated that the Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sheikh Ibrahim Ansari was killed in the blasts. Ansari took his post in Lebanon a month ago and was overseeing all regional cultural activities.          

The Abdullah Azzam brigades, a Lebanon-based al-Qaeda affiliate, said it was behind a double suicide attack on the Iranian embassy.