Israel’s defense minister blamed Iran for a series of seemingly unwitting amateur explosions in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Tuesday, one day after attacks against the Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.
“The attempted terror attack in Thailand proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to operate in the ways of terror and the latest attacks are an example of that,” said Defense Minister Ehud Barak. “Iran and Hezbollah are unrelenting terror elements endangering the stability of the region, and endangering the stability of the world.”
The New York Times reported that three men “fled a house in the Sukhumvit neighborhood of Bangkok after an explosion in the early afternoon destroyed the house’s roof. One escaped and another was detained at the city’s main international airport. Witnesses said the third, bleeding and seemingly disoriented, lobbed two explosive devices at a taxi and approaching police officers, and one of the blasts severed his legs and wounded several Thais.”
The Thai government said at least two of these three men were caught carrying Iranian passports. But Barak’s statement illustrates Israel’s frenzied eagerness to paint Iran as a global terrorist menace, since the Thai intelligence agencies don’t think the incident was an act of terror, especially since it seems more like three idiots playing with explosives and blowing themselves up.
Furthermore, what possible interest the Iranian government has in blowing up a rented cottage and a taxi in Bangkok, Thailand has escaped the Iranian version of events.
The Times reported, the men, even if they are truly Iranian, could be “simply arms smugglers, drug traffickers or gangsters in a city known as a hub of illicit activity.” But Israeli officials are apparently happy to grasp at straws to bolster propaganda against Iran.
Two attempts to assassinate Israeli diplomats failed on Monday in India and Georgia, which also prompted Israel to accuse Iran for being behind the attacks, despite Iranian denials of involvement.
The attacks came just days after NBC News broke a story in which an unnamed U.S. official revealed that Israel funded, trained, and armed the Iranian terrorist dissident group Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) in carrying out assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. That Israel would have the temerity to condemn acts of covert terrorism is hypocritical.
Sorry, John, I don't buy this. They were armed with grenades and C4 explosives. Calling them "drug smugglers" just doesn't cut it.
a few years ago the drug kingpins in Montreal were busy blowing each other up and the biker wars in Denmark (TV documentary) were equiped with RPG's and rocket launchers, they were were in a dispute over drug territory.
Well, aren´t the Israelis high on the horse, painting Iran as the World´s leading menace, while they´ve been assassinating and blowing up things for decades, as the "Western civilized" world looks the other way.
You have to hand it Mossad–they make great phony passports and malfunctionig bombs–when they're not targeting Iranian nuclear scientists, that is.
Yeah. Just like those Israeli operatives who used New Zealand passports to do their dirty business. Or the South African passports forged for the purpose of making that assassination years ago.
Barak can stick it 'where the sun don't shine'….
It’s obvious that India’s intention to keep on purchasing Iranian oil has infuriated a ceartian rouge state specialized in false flag attacks. I hope the indians smell the fish and don’t let Iran down.
In the last two years Israel has been CAUGHT using the Passports of other countries like Britain Germany Australia and other so called friendly to Israel nations, and doing acts of terror whilst USING them. Yes assasination is an act of terror regardless of the Target.
From just a few days ago in Haaretz:
"Report: Israel's Mossad still using foreign passports in undercover operations" http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/rep…
Israel is the worlds premier "cry wolf" hypocrite. They target and murder Iranian scientists guilty of nothing, but doing legitimate research. Furthermore the bombs tactics that were used to kill the Iranian scientists were used in India, and the Ukraine..can we say false-flag… Zionists are monsters who care nothing about human rights, international law, or killing anyone who is not a Zionist. Shut these trolls down before they destroy our planet…
These people will not stop at any thing to blame others to achieve their main goal. They did that in dividing people in Yugoslavia, they did that in Iraq and historically they have don it since the Vietnam war. Their social psychological warfare thus far giving them dividend by militarizing the world and that is what they want; therefore, US and EU and their foreign policies never been based on democracy, on the contrary, is a militarism regime and as Madeline Albright the mother of all zionism said it best: "what is so good about this mighty army if we can not use it”. Democracy or not is not these people agenda, they simply work for Wall Street and Bank of England and the Queen and Kings and lately the Tyrants in Middle East, what they see is their “interests” when they say US “interests". You want prof look at senators who gain money by investing in wars when there is war that they create and support.
Even assuming the 'bombers' were Iranian, the sheer amateur-hour aspects of these events would lead one to conclude nothing less than that Iranian terrorists are bumbling, ham-handed idiots…. hardly the flint-eyed killers bent on world domination they're being painted as. The world should be asking themselves, if this is what Israel points to as an 'existential threat' why are they even worried?
On the other hand, if I were a betting man my money would be on Israel being behind it from first to last. I'm just sayin'.