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Hezbollah denies link to attacks on Israeli diplomats
Feb 16, 2012, 20:05 GMT
Beirut - Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday denied any links to the attacks that targeted Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, New Delhi and Georgia.
'We have nothing to do with the attacks on the Israeli officials earlier this week,' Nasrallah said of his pro-Iranian movement.
Israel has accused Iran of being behind the attacks, a charge that Tehran has strongly denied.
'It will be a disgrace for us ... to avenge the assassination of (Hezbollah military leader) Imad Mughaniyeh by killing simple Israeli citizens or Israeli diplomats,' he said, during a rally to commemorate Mughaniyeh's death.
Mughaniyeh was killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus, which the Lebanese Shiite movement blamed on Israel.
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