The Al Qaeda-aligned Abdullah Azzam Brigades have claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly twin bombings of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, a cleric linked to the group said on Twitter.
“The Abdullah Azzam brigades... are behind the attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut,” Sheikh Sirajeddine Zuraiqat, the group’s religious guide, wrote on the microblogging website.
Israel earlier denied accusations by Iran’s Ambassador to lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, that it was behind the blasts in Beirut. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades had earlier claimed responsibility for rocket attack on northern Israel from lebanon on August 22.