Jewish State’s PM Blames Iran As Deadly Feud Explodes In India
New Delhi: The battle over Iran’s nuclear weapons programme seemed to reach India on Monday as an Israeli diplomat’s car was hit by a terror strike barely 200 metres from the official residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The first open attack on an Israeli target in India coincided with an aborted strike against Israeli diplomats in Tbilisi, Georgia, pointing to a possible marked escalation of hostilities between the Shiite theocracy in Iran, which is defiant about pursuing its nuclear programme, and Israel, the US as well as the Sunni Arab world who are equally determined to stop it. While Israel categorically blamed Iran, the Iranian government denied any involvement in the attack.
On Monday afternoon, a motorcycleborne youth tailed an Israeli embassy vehicle on Aurangzeb Road in the high security zone in New Delhi, close to the PM’s residence, and allegedly placed “something” on the rear of the car when it stopped at a traffic signal at the intersection of Aurangzeb Road and Safdarjung Road in the Capital’s high-security zone.
Seconds later, there was an explosion and the Toyota Innova car, bearing registration number 109 CD 35, went up in flames. Three persons including the Israeli defence attache’s wife Tal-yehoshua Korene, who was going to pick up her children from the American Embassy School, were injured.
Investigators later got a crucial clue to the assailant in the footage from two CCTV cameras installed at industrialist Analjit Singh’s 15, Aurangzeb Road residence. The bomber, in brown jacket on a motorcycle, is seen tailing the embassy car at 3.10 pm at a distance of 2-3 seconds. The cameras could not capture the registration number of the bike.
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WHAT HAPPENED
3.12pm | Israeli diplomat Talyehoshua, 42, leaves embassy at Aurangzeb Road for American Embassy School to pick up her children 3.15 | Her Innova car, 109 CD 35, stops at red light at Safdurjang Rd crossing. Man on red bike wearing a brown jacket stops right behind Innova 3.16 | As Innova begins to move, driver hears a knock at the back. Witnesses see biker speeding away after sticking a diary-sized object on the car’s rear3.16 | Seconds later there’s a blast and car goes up in flames.
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