The investigation into the recent low-intensity bomb blast near the Israel embassy in Delhi is still not conclusive but a note of suspicion is pointing towards Iran with local involvement. According to counter-terrorism officials in New Delhi, there is ample evidence to confirm the involvement of Iran in the blast.

A senior official said that “deliberate efforts have been made to firewall the real suspect behind the terror incident with false flags and deniability built into the attack that distinctly was carried out at the behest of Iran.”

New Delhi has taken the heinous attack near Israel embassy very seriously and its position is that India cannot be used by any country to target its perceived enemies. India has close relationships with both Israel and Iran, but these two countries are antagonists for each other.

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Tension between Israel and Iran has increased and deteriorated since President Trump, in 2018, unilaterally pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action  of 2015, an accord designed to wind back Iran’s nuclear program in return for sanction relief. Meanwhile, tit-for-tat confrontations between Iranian and US proxies in the Persian Gulf, along with Israeli attack on Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq have escalated.

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The angles of the current investigation, counter-terror officials said, are focused on Indian students who have returned after studying at Qom, one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam, in Iran. The focus is on a particular city in south India and a Shia dominated city in Afghanistan, the officials added. The matter can possibly take a serious diplomatic turn.

Officials in South block told that this is not the first time that Iran has been involved in an attack of this kind in India. On February 13, 2012, three Quds agents through an Indian conduit had targeted the wife of the Israeli Defense Attaché with a magnetic bomb. (Quds is one of five branches of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations.)

While the agents then managed to escape, the then UPA regime discreetly rapped Iran on its knuckles and told it not to repeat this again in New Delhi.