NYT: Iranian officials suspect Israel to blame for mysterious blasts across country

Iranian officials believe that explosions across the country over the past month are acts of sabotage by Israel, The New York Times reports.

While officially, the mysterious blasts hitting apartment buildings and oil facilities have been blamed on aging infrastructure, three Iranian officials, including a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, tell the Times they suspect Israel is to blame.

A European official who deals with Iran also tells the newspaper he suspects Israel is involved.

Israeli officials decline to comment on the report.

The ongoing chaos followed the 12-day war last month, when Israel launched a sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program it said was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

????Iran: 5 injured in an explosion in a residential building in the Fatemiyeh area of Qom city. According to the authorities, it was a water heater explosion… pic.twitter.com/dxbaRvdpSZ

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