Syria Slams Beirut Blasts: Odor of Petrodollars Comes from All Terrorist Acts against Syria, Lebanon

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Syria has strongly condemned a double bomb blast outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday that killed at least 23 people, official media reported.

"The Syrian government firmly condemns the terrorist attack carried out near the Iranian embassy in Beirut," state television said.

It said an "odor of petrodollars comes from all the terrorist acts against Syria, Lebanon and Iraq," an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which back the Syrian uprising.

At least 23 people were killed and 150 wounded in the blasts in the Hizbullah stronghold of Bir Hassan.

The powerful explosions just opposite the multi-storey embassy caused chaos, ripping the facades off nearby buildings and setting cars ablaze.

They come after two other bomb attacks this year in the southern suburbs of Beirut that are the bastion of Hizbullah.

The group, which is sponsored by Iran, has drawn controversy for sending thousands of fighters to support the regime of Syria's President Bashar Assad as he battles a 32-month-old uprising.

Comments 8
Thumb benzona 19 November 2013, 14:37

lol at the accusation. One says it's Israel, the other KSA a third the Syrian Regime.

The truth is nobody knows.

If no ambassador was killed or injured then it was an M8/Syrian attack like they did in Dahyé 2 months ago.

Default-user-icon ezzo (Guest) 19 November 2013, 17:27

LOL. You cannot be serious. Surely you know Saudi and Israeli is the same thing at this point. Wake up bro

Thumb _mowaten_ 19 November 2013, 17:47

benzona making sense? that would be a first! ;)

Default-user-icon Jamal A. (Guest) 19 November 2013, 15:16

بالفعل رائحة البترودولار الإيراني التكفيري وجراويه من خدم عصابة الأسد. منذ تفجير مقر المارينز حتى هذين التفجيرين الأخيرين بصمة واحدة فقط لا غير: بصمة ما يسمى حزب الله. والآتي أروع بعد.

Default-user-icon The Truth (Guest) 19 November 2013, 16:14

Terrorist regime's embassy attacked by terrorists. What about all the Syrian and Iranian funded bombings in Lebanon over the years?

Thumb dasphinx 19 November 2013, 16:33

Michel Samaha and Rifaat Eid ring a bell?

Default-user-icon ezzo (Guest) 19 November 2013, 17:28

Oh please. Listen to you justify foreign armies on Lebanese soil and dare call yourself a patriotic Lebanese... lol. What a joke.

Thumb _mowaten_ 19 November 2013, 17:42

funny ice-man, you did the same a few weeks ago.