TEHRAN -- The murder in Dubai of top Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month was an act of Israeli "state terrorism," the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran said on Tuesday.
They're working our side of the street!
"The Dubai assassination is an act of state terrorism on the part of Israel," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in a report by state-run Press TV.
"Israel's existence is itself based on terrorist activities," Mehmanparast said at his weekly news conference, according to the channel which translated his comments into English.
Unlike, say, IRAN?
The spokesman described the assassination of the Palestinian militant as an "embarrassment for Europe."
It's Iran and Dubai that are acting embarrassed.
Dubai has accused Israel of sending agents of its Mossad secret service to the Gulf state to carry out the murder.
Mossad certainly did deliver a message, didn't they. If it was them, I mean ... |