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February 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda However, the driver, seeing the man’s bloodied condition, refused the fare.
Outraged, the Iranian man then threw a grenade at the taxi damaging the
vehicle and injuring the driver.
As Thai police gave chase from nearby, he threw another grenade at the
officers. It hit a tree, bounced back and exploded under his legs.
Maj Gen Pisit Pisutsak, Bangkok’s deputy police commissioner, said a passport
found in the bag identified the man as Saeid Moradi, 50, an Iranian.
He was being treated at a Bangkok hospital where doctors amputated part of his
legs.
A second Iranian man suspected of involvement in the blasts, Mohammad Hazaei,
42, was arrested at the airport. He was planning to board an Air Asia flight
to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The third suspect remained at large on Tuesday night as police searched for
his whereabouts.
Thai police said they had found more explosives inside the house where the
first explosion occurred.
Four Thais, three men and a woman, were injured in the explosions which took
place in the rented house in the south-east of the city.
Authorities were trying to trace Moradi’s movements, but initial reports
indicated he arrived in Thailand from Seoul, South
Korea on Feb. 8. He landed at the southern resort of Phuket, then
stayed for several nights in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive
southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called on people “not to panic”
and said the situation was under control.
It was the second time in as many months that the Thai police have uncovered
suspicious Iranian related terrorist activity in the country.
On Tuesday night, Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, who left Bangkok
after a visit on Sunday, said Iran had been caught plotting another attack
on his country.
“The attempted terrorist attack in Bangkok proves once again that Iran
and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror,” he said. “The
recent terror attacks are yet another example of this.
“Iran and Hizbollah are uninhibited sources of terror, they are a danger
to the stability of the region and a danger to the stability of the world.”
Last month Thai police arrested a Swedish-Lebanese man with links to pro-Iran
Hezbollah following warnings from the US and Israel about a possible
terrorist attack in Bangkok.
The man led police to a cache of bomb-making materials, 4,000kgs of urea and
several litres of ammonium nitrate, but government officials said they were
content with his assurances the material was being transported to a third,
unspecified country, and was not planning an attack in Thailand.
Matthew Levitt, an expert in Iran’s overseas terrorist activities at the
Washington Institute think tank, said Iran was globally plotting attacks
against Israel both directly and through the Lebanese Hizbollah.
“We’ve seen a whole series of credible threats exposed in recent months
in Azerbaijan, Thailand, India, Turkey, South America and Africa,” he
said. “Its very serious because, as the director of US intelligence
told Congress, Iran’s leaders see no red lines crossed by carrying out
attacks on foreign soil.”
Indian officials warned the attack on a car carrying the wife of the Israeli
defence attache was an act of terrorism carried out byby a well-trained
attacker. The country’s home minister has vowed to find the assailants. Tal
Yehoshua Koren, the woman caught in Monday’s attack, remained in hospital
recovering from an operation to remove shrapnel from her back.
Yehoshua Koren managed to escape from her car after it exploded having seen a
motorcyclist wearing a black helmet attach the bomb, relatives said.
Another explosive device found at the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi was defused.
Meanwhile the Iranian opposition Green movement claimed its had stage the
first open protest in the Iranian capital in months.
The protests in Tehran marked one year since Iran’s main opposition leaders
Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi were placed under house arrest.
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