Suicide blasts hit Beirut’s Iranian embassy

A double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed at least 23 people on Tuesday, November 19, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group.  The attack, which also wounded almost 150 people in a southern Beirut stronghold of the Hezbollah movement, is the first time the Iranian embassy in Lebanon has been targeted.  The blasts follow two other bomb attacks this year in Hezbollah bastions in southern Beirut, amid rising tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria.

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