(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 08 MAR - The bomb that exploded in New Delhilo last January 29 in front of the Israeli Embassy was not a homemade device.
According to the newspaper The Hindustan Times, counter-terrorism investigators filtered the news that the conspiracy was hatched by the Qods Force, the component of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards responsible for operations abroad, and that the bomb was placed by a member of a Indian cell of pro-Caliphate terrorist Islam.
The device was remote-controlled with an electronic detonator, contained a sophisticated type of explosive and was stuffed with lead shot that damaged the windows of cars parked next to the gate.
According to a counter-terrorism expert, the modalities of the attack, designed not to harm people, but only to intimidate, would have been dictated by the will of Iran not to upset a friendly country like India.
The message against Israel, however, was clear and the threat real.
A letter found next to the gate of the Israeli embassy claimed revenge for the deaths of the Qods Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mehdhi Al Muhandis, head of an Iraqi building allied with Tehran, both killed in Baghdad in an American drone raid in January 2020. , and nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, killed in Tehran last November in an attack attributed to Israel.
In addition to the Indians, Israeli investigators are investigating the case, flanked by Mossad agents.
Sources close to the Indian government say that Delhi is offended that the capital was used by a friendly government as the scene of a battle against an enemy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to raise the issue with Iran as soon as local supporters of the Iranian regime have been captured.
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