Saudi Arabia prime suspect in Tehran attacks: Amir-Abdollahian

An Iranian official says Saudi Arabia is the “prime suspect” behind the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran.

In a tweet on Wednesday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a special adviser on international affairs to the Iranian Parliament speaker, said former Saudi intelligence chief and long-time ambassador to Washington Bandar bin Sultan had “directed the November 2013 terrorist operation against the Iranian Embassy in [the Lebanese capital of] Beirut.”

“Now, Riyadh is the prime suspect in the Tehran terrorist incidents,” Amir-Abdollahian said.

More than two dozen people, including Iran’s cultural attaché to Beirut, were killed and at least 150 others injured in that year when two explosions struck near the Iranian diplomatic premises in the south of the Lebanese capital.

Following the incident, the so-called Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombings. The group’s Saudi leader, Majid al-Majid, was arrested in early January 2014 and died days later from poor health in a Lebanese jail. Majid was a high-profile terrorist also wanted by the US and some other countries.

Last Wednesday, terrorists attacked the Iranian Parliament and the Mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in the capital Tehran, killing as many as 17 people. The Takfiri terrorist group Daesh claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Daesh follows Wahhabism, an extremely intolerant and violent pseudo-ideology that is preached by government-sanctioned clerics in Saudi Arabia.

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