{"id":52312,"date":"2013-11-20T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=52312"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T14:29:28","slug":"al-qaeda-linked-group-claims-responsibility-for-bomb-attack-on-iranian-embassy-that-killed-23-in-hezbollah-stronghold-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=52312","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for bomb attack on Iranian embassy that killed 23 in Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosions-near-the-Iranian-Embassy-Beirut1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-52309\" alt=\"\u0531\u056c \u0554\u0561\u056b\u0564\u0561,\u0532\u0565\u0575\u0580\u0578\u0582\u0569,\u053b\u0580\u0561\u0576\u056b \u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576, \u057a\u0561\u0575\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u0568\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosions-near-the-Iranian-Embassy-Beirut1.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosions-near-the-Iranian-Embassy-Beirut1.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosions-near-the-Iranian-Embassy-Beirut1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosions-near-the-Iranian-Embassy-Beirut1-434x300.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings that struck outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut today, killing 23 people including an Iranian diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>The obscure Abdullah Azzam Brigades said it carried out the mid-morning bombings in a Hezbollah stronghold &#8211; the latest strike in battles that have played out in the region for decades and now intensified with the civil war next door in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The authenticity of the claim could not be independently verified but it was posted on a militant website and on the Twitter account of Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a prominent Islamic militant leader.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it will continue with such attacks until the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group withdraws its forces from Syria, where the group is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad&#8217;s forces against the mostly Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman blamed Israel for the attacks while Hezbollah and Syrian officials indirectly blamed Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An Al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings that struck outside the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[4072],"class_list":["post-52312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-al-qaeda-linked-group-claims-responsibility-for-bomb-attack-on-iranian-embassy-that-killed-23-in-hezbollah-stronghold-in-beirut","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}