Israel accuses Hezbollah and Iran of attacks on diplomats

Israel accused arch-enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted embassy staff in India and Georgia yesterday, wounding four people.

Tehran denied involvement in the strike, which has amplified tensions between two countries at loggerheads over Iran’s contested nuclear programme. Hezbollah, the powerful Shi’ite Muslim movement in neighbouring Lebanon, declined to comment.

Police in the Indian capital New Delhi said a bomb wrecked a car carrying the wife of the Israeli defence attache as she was going to pick up her children from school. She needed surgery to remove shrapnel but her life was not in danger, officials said.