Is the Iranian community big in Singapore, should the authorities be of concern regarding recent violence cause by Iranians?
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 told reporters in Bangkok yesterday, hours after he confirmed that the Bangkok 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 in Bangkok. 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.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet convened yesterday to discuss the attacks and hear Foreign Ministry and security officials’ assessments of the situation, Netanyahu’s office said in an e-mailed statement.
Before the meeting, Netanyahu told the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, that unless Iran is stopped, attacks against Israel will spread to other countries.
“Israel’s security apparatus will know how to fight the Iranian threat,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said yesterday, according to an e-mailed statement from his office.
Iran denies involvement in the attacks.
“Efforts by Israel to harm the friendly relations between Thailand and Iran will bear no results,” Ramin Mehmanparast, a foreign ministry spokesman, was quoted as saying by the Iranian state-run Mehr news agency. Israel’s “coordinated baseless accusations of our country having a hand in blasts in India and Georgia and Bangkok shows the plot and the setting up of a suspicious scenario.”
The attacks follow the deaths of several Iranian nuclear scientists, the most recent in a Jan. 11 car bombing in Tehran that Iran said Israel had orchestrated. They also coincided with the fourth anniversary of the killing of Imad Mughniyeh, who was a leader of the military wing of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which Israel and the U.S. consider a terrorist organization.
India, Thailand and Georgia were probably targeted according to the assets the perpetrators were able to deploy, Will Hartley, head of the Terrorism & Insurgency Centre at defense researcher IHS Jane’s, said in an e-mail.
“The initial impression is that they were selected to demonstrate a wide-ranging international capability, rather than an intent to target the specific countries themselves,” he said.
Thai officials detained two men with Iranian passports, including one who blew his own legs off in Feb. 14 blasts. Priewphan identified one of the suspects as Mohammad Khazaei, 42, who he said police have connected to the explosions with closed-circuit television images.
The men were charged yesterday with possession of explosive devices with the intent to harm others, Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said by phone.
Malaysian authorities arrested a third suspect in the attack, Malaysia’s Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar said in cellphone text message. “He is being investigated for terrorism activities in relation to bombings in Thailand,” Omar said. Thai police are also searching for an Iranian woman who helped the three men rent the house in Bangkok.
The arrests mark the second time in as many months Thai authorities have detained suspects accused of targeting Jewish sites in Bangkok. Police last month charged a Swedish-Lebanese man they linked to Hezbollah with possessing illegal substances after detaining him in connection with a plan to attack sites in the Thai capital frequented by Americans and Israelis.
The arrest came three days after the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok warned Jan. 13 that “foreign terrorists” aimed to attack tourist areas. The U.S. and U.K. again warned citizens traveling in Thailand to remain vigilant after Feb. 14 attacks, which injured four people in addition to the suspect.
Here in Singapore, we have locals selling them weapons!
Four Singaporeans accused by the American government of sending weapons parts to Iran were ordered to be extradited to the United States by a district court on Friday.
The US authorities alleged that the Singaporeans, three men and a woman, conspired to evade a US trade embargo against Iran by smuggling electronic components from a US company to Iran, which then ended up in explosives in Iraq.
Noting that the hearing was only to ascertain whether there was sufficient evidence for extradition, District Judge Chia Wee Kiat said the prosecution had made its case despite the denials of the four.
In his 48-page judgment, he wrote: 'Where does the truth lie? Clearly, this can only be ascertained at trial where the evidence, explanations and credibility of witnesses can be tested under cross-examination.'
why Iranians still wanna create more hatred for themselves ?
all these attacks are Israeli false-flag attacks
Okay what is this thread about?
Iranians trying to take over the world by throwing in a few spies into sg