Iran Condemns Tripoli Explosions, Says Takfiris Coordinating with Israel
Iran denounced on Saturday the powerful blasts that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day earlier, pointing out that Tehran will not allow “terrorism” to threaten Lebanon's stability and security.
Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for the Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdul-Lahian pointed out in comments to IRNA news agency that the explosions that hit Tripoli came after an earlier strike by Israel on the area of Naameh south of Beirut.
On Friday, powerful car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, killing at least 45 people and wounding hundreds.
The first bomb struck in the city center at the al-Salam mosque as worshipers were still inside.
The second explosion struck just minutes later outside al-Taqwa mosque, about two kilometers away, near the port.
“There is coordination between Israel and the takfiri groups,” the Iranian official stated.
Earlier on Friday, the Israeli air force struck a Palestinian group in Lebanon, officials said, hours after a different organization said it had fired four rockets at the Jewish state from Lebanon.
The state-run National News Agency said the target was a position of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a hardline but secular militant group which said it had nothing to do with Thursday's rocket fire.
The salvo of four rockets, which caused damage but no casualties, was claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades -- an al-Qaida-linked group which claimed similar rocket fire on Israel in 2009 and 2011.
Abdul-Lahian called the Islamic nation and political leaders to confront the takfiris in the region, saying that his country is ready to support the resistance in Lebanon.
In a broadcast speech he gave at a ceremony marking the end of the July 2006 war, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explained that his combat in Syria is against Takfiris, vowing that he is “ready to personally go fight in Syria if necessary.”
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