Iranian Bomb Suspects 'Targeted' Israelis, Thai Police Say
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Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Iranians arrested after blasts on a Bangkok street aimed to attack Israeli diplomats, and the devices used were similar to bombs targeting Israelis in India and Georgia this week, according to Thailand’s police chief.
“The suspects targeted Israeli diplomats in Thailand,” Priewphan Damaphong said in Bangkok yesterday, hours after he confirmed that the bombs contained magnets designed to attach to vehicles. India’s initial investigations suggest that a magnetic device was attached to an Israeli diplomat’s car on Feb. 13 in New Delhi seconds before it exploded injuring the woman, the city’s police commissioner, B.K. Gupta, has said.
“The type of explosive device is similar to the incident in India,” Priewphan told reporters. The men “were not targeting a place.”
The incidents in India, Georgia and Thailand increase tensions as Israeli leaders, who haven’t ruled out a military strike, say time is running out for sanctions to deter Iran from building nuclear weapons. The U.S. and the European Union have tightened economic restrictions while seeking to avert a military conflagration in a region that holds more than half of global oil reserves.
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