Iranian diplomats wounded in Iraq - boo hoo

Armed men have ambushed an Iranian embassy convoy in Baghdad, wounding three Iranians, including two diplomats, and an Iraqi, according to a diplomatic spokesman.

The convoy was on its way to a Shia shrine in the northern neighbourhood of Kazimiya when it came under fire, Manoucher Taslimi, an Iranian embassy spokesman, said on Friday.

The attack occurred the previous day as the convoy approached a bridge that links Kazimiya with the predominantly Sunni area of Azamiya, according to Taslimi.

He said those wounded, including an Iranian and an Iraqi administrative employee, were in stable condition.

Iran blamed the US for the ambush, saying Washington's threats against it encourage terrorist attacks against Iranian interests in Iraq.
"The suspicious behavior of US forces in security issues has brought increasing insecurity in Iraq," Mohammad Ali Hosseini, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement, a copy of which was made available to the Associated Press news agency.
"Responsibility for providing security to diplomats as well as diplomatic and international bodies in Iraq rests with the occupiers."
Hosseini said threatening statements by US authorities against Iran were only encouraging fighters to carry out terror attacks.

The level of hypocrisy astounds me. The last thing in the world this regime can whine about is security to diplomats.

Let us also take Hosseini’s statement about threatening statements further. The daily “Death to America, Death to Israel” that comes from regime members are threatening.

And how is it that Syria and Iran say that their proxies in Lebanon were justified in their mayhem, but when Iraqi citizens attack the Iranians it is terrorist attacks? Iran is supporting massive amounts of killings in Iraq. Iran is not trying to stabilize Iraq – Iranian leaders do not want a stable democracy sitting next door to them.