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Bombs Strike Iranian Embassy In Beirut
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An al-Qaida-linked group is claiming responsibility for a pair of suicide bombs that killed more than 20 people outside the Iranian embassy in Lebanon today.
The bombs targeted the predominantly Shiite area in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the Shiite group that is sending soldiers to fight alongside President Assad's forces in neighboring Syria.
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- Thanassis Cambanis, Beirut-based journalist and a fellow at The Century Foundation. He is author of "A Privilege to Die," about Hezbollah. He tweets @tcambanis.
This segment aired on November 19, 2013.