Hezbollah Condemns Baghdad Terrorist Attacks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah Resistance Movement strongly condemned two car bombings in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that killed dozens of people, saying that by killing civilians, terrorists are attempting to take revenge for their defeats on the battlefields.
The heinous crime was committed by Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group at a time when it is suffering heavy defeats on different fronts against the Iraqi people, Hezbollah said in a statement on Sunday.
The attacks indicate that the terrorists are trying to take revenge for their defeats on the battlefields through targeting Iraq civilians, the statement added, according to the Arabic-language Al-Manar TV.
Hezbollah also offered deep condolences to the Iraqi government, nation and the bereaved families of victims of the deadly attacks.
During the early hours of Sunday, a bomb planted on a truck went off at a busy commercial street in the Shiite neighborhood of Karrada, leaving at least 131 people dead and about 200 others wounded.
The Karrada blast was followed by a second attack that was carried out at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad, killing one person and injuring five more.
In a message posted on Twitter, the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bombings.
The Iraqi premier, who visited the site of the blast in Karrada, said the Daesh terrorists have desperately resorted to bomb attacks targeting civilians in the wake of their recent heavy defeats at the hands of the Iraqi army and volunteer fighters in the battlefront,
