Iran: Israel attacked its own citizens in Bulgaria

Israel's deputy ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Haim Waxman (Waxman) called Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Kazai's claim "astounding, but not surprising" since it comes from the same government that has linked the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to the theory of domestic violence. conspiracies in the USA and which denies the Holocaust.

Israel accuses Iran of developing atomic weapons and has repeatedly indicated that it is ready to attack its nuclear facilities. Iran claims that the facilities have a purely peacetime purpose.

During a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East, Waxman accused Iran and the Palestinian militant group Hezbollah of carrying out a suicide attack on a bus of Israeli tourists in Burgas that killed five tourists and the Bulgarian driver.

Waxman also blamed Iran and Hezbollah for attacks in recent months against Israelis in India, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Kenya, Turkey and Cyprus.

Responding, Iran's ambassador Kazai said that Tehran "has never engaged in, and will never engage in, such wanton kinds of attacks on the lives of innocent people." "Such a terrorist act (as in Bulgaria) could have been planned and carried out only by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorist acts and liquidations aimed at implicating others and for the sake of gaining political gains," said Kazai, alluding to Israel.

Kazai stated that he could cite many examples showing that Israel has "killed its own citizens and innocent Jews over the past few decades in order to accuse others of it."

"Iran is a victim of such operations and the liquidations of Iranian nuclear scientists are a fresh example," Kazai said.

Waxman announced after the meeting that "Iranian fingerprints can be found everywhere on the horrific attack in Bulgaria - and on dozens of other terrorist plots in the past months, scattered across five continents and in at least 24 countries."

"The time has come for the world to put an end to this campaign of terror - once and for all," Waxman said.

Tehran claims that Israel's Mossad secret service has killed at least five Iranian nuclear experts since 2010 and injected powerful "viruses" into Iran's computer systems.

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