Iran to withdraw its envoy from Bulgaria following attack accusations
Published February 10, 2013
(JTA) — In the wake of accusations that Iran was involved in a terror attack last year that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver, the Islamic Republic will recall its ambassador to Bulgaria.
Iran reportedly also will downgrade its relations with Bulgaria, according to reports.
The Bulgarian government last week implicated two men with links to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the July attack in Burgas on a bus full of Israeli tourists. Bulgaria’s interior minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, also said that Hezbollah financed the bomb attack.
Iran has denied its involvement in last July’s attack and accused Israel of staging the attack. Israel has blamed Hezbollah and Iran for the attack.
Iran’s ambassador to Bulgaria on Friday denied Iranian involvement in the attack.”This has nothing to do with Iran,” Iran’s Ambassador to Bulgaria Gholamreza Bageri told reporters. “We are against any form of terrorism and strongly condemn such actions.”
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