A senior Iranian diplomat was reportedly among at least 23 people killed and 146 injured today in two suicide bomb blasts that struck close to the Iranian Embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the mid-morning explosions hit Beirut’s upscale neighborhood of Janah, a stronghold of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group.

Footage from security cameras showed a man rushing towards the outer wall of the Iranian embassy before blowing himself up, Lebanese officials said.

The officials who watched the videos said the second explosion was caused by a car bomb parked two buildings away from the embassy.

Lebanese security officials confirmed the two bombings were both suicide attacks. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

‘We tell those who carried out the attack, you will not be able to break us,’ Hezbollah lawmaker Ali Mikdad told Al-Mayadeen TV. ‘We got the message and we know who sent it and we know how to retaliate.’

Attacks have targeted Lebanon’s Shiite strongholds recently in what many see as retaliation by extremists for Hezbollah’s role in Syria.

Hezbollah has been fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces against largely Sunni rebels seeking to topple his government.