Blast kills 4 near Iran embassy in Iraq

AP
Tuesday July 17, 2007

A car bomb has exploded across the street near the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, killing at least four people and wounding five others.

Police said the bomb was exploded in a vehicle parked opposite the Iranian Embassy in the upscale Karadat Maryam district near the fortified Green Zone compound, on Tuesday 11:00 am (0700 GMT).

Police spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information.

The Iranian Embassy is near to, but not inside the Green Zone, home to the Iraqi government and parliament, the US and British embassies and many other foreign missions.

The blast rattled windows in surrounding buildings and cloaked the unpaved parking lot in a pall of gray smoke, leaving at least one vehicle engulfed in flames.

The area near the Iranian Embassy has been targeted before. In April two car bombs went off there but did not cause heavy casualties.