Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria attack

Iran’s UN envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Slaughterer Israel immediately accused Iran and the Lebanon’s Hezbollah of the bombing, without providing any evidence. Iran has denied the accusations.

“It’s amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Iran’s UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East.

“We have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on … innocent people.”

“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains,” Khazaee said.

“I could provide … many examples showing that this regime killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades.”

Israel has been waging a covert and public relations war against Iran, leading many observers to believe the Jewish state is considering launching unilateral strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.