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Israel and the security services will con-
tinue to act together with local security
forces against such acts of terrorism.
We will continue to take strong and sys-
tematic, yet patient, action against the
international terrorism that originates
in Iran."
Iran's ambassador to New Delhi,
Mehdi Nabizadeh, rejected Netanyahu's
accusations, calling them "untrue and
sheer lies, like previous times:' Reuters
reported. Nabizadeh also condemned
the attack.
But on Feb. 3, Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his
country is prepared to assist those who
would "confront" Israel and the United
States.
"From now on, in any place, if any
nation or any group confronts the
Zionist regime, we will endorse and we
will help:' he said in a rare Friday ser-
mon."We have no fear expressing this."
The attacks in Georgia and New
Delhi took place the day after the fourth
anniversary of the car bombing in Syria
that killed Imad Mughniyeh, the opera-
tions chief for Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon
proxy. At the time, Hezbollah leaders
said they would avenge the killing at a
time and place of their choosing. That
was widely seen at the time as a signal
that Hezbollah was ending its unofficial
moratorium on attacking Israelis and
Jews outside the Middle East that had
been in place since the mid-1990s.
In 1994, an Iranian-sponsored bomb-
ing thought to have been carried out by
Hezbollah operatives leveled the AMIA
Jewish community center in Buenos
Aires, killing 85 people and injuring
more than 300. A bombing attack on that
city's Israeli Embassy two years earlier
had left 29 dead.
For its part, Israel has not acknowl-
edged responsibility for the attacks on
Iranian nuclear scientists. But a number
of unnamed American officials have
told media outlets that they believe

Israel is behind the killings.
Patrick Clawson, an Iran analyst at
the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, said Israel's posture in the region
stems from the existential threat that
Israeli leaders believe is posed by Iran's
suspected nuclear weapons program.
Recent reports suggest that Israeli lead-
ers think that time is running out to
halt the program before Iran has passed
a point of no return on the way to a
nuclear weapon.
"Israel's attitude would be diplomats
are expendable because of national sur-
vival," Clawson said.
In the New Delhi attack, Tal Yehoshua
Koren, the wife of a diplomat stationed
with the Israeli Defense Ministry mis-
sion in India, was the injured woman,
Ynet reported. Koren was said to be in
moderate condition.
After the attack, Israel Defense Forces
Chief of Staff Benny Gantz called a
meeting to assess the situation of
Israel's foreign missions. India's foreign
minister reportedly called his Israeli
counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, and
said his country would work to capture
the attackers. He also said his country
will provide additional security for the
embassy.
In a call with Indian reporters follow-
ing Monday's attack, Paul Hirschson,
an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman,
commended the Indian and Georgian
governments for working with Israel to
follow up on such attempts and prevent
them in the future. He also suggested
that Israel's responses to such attacks
would not be confined to prevention.
"I don't think we're going to say we're
going to twiddle our thumbs happily at
attempts on Israelis anywhere," he said
Monday in a conference call organized
by The Israel Project in Washington,
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in protecting the Jewish community:'
he said. "Its Office of Community-wide
Security is in constant contact with
state and federal agencies monitor-
ing the intelligence channels to keep
abreast of the latest threats and world
activities that may adversely affect the
Jewish community, its agencies and
institutions.
"While it acts immediately when cir-
cumstances warrant to inform, advise
and assist the entire Jewish commu-
nity in taking appropriate measures,
it functions day-to-day in a preventa-
tive posture. For example, Federation,
ADL, the Jewish Community Relations
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