– BANGKOK’S IRANIAN PLOT INVESTIGATION

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* Pattaya has earned a reputation for its wild nightlife thanks to its thriving red light district. Police have tracked down a Thai woman known as “Nancy” who escorted one of the men, Mohammad Khazaei, during his stay there. The English-language Thai daily published a photograph that it said showed the three suspects relaxing in a hotel bar in Pattaya with two Thai female companions, under the headline: “Suspects partied in Pattay“ .”The most important evidence we found are pictures in Nancy’s mobile phone taken on the night of February 11 which prove that the three suspects know each other”, a senior police officer said.

* “These three Iranian men are an assassination team and their targets were Israeli diplomats including the ambassador,” a senior Thai intelligence official told AFP,on Wednesday 02/15/2012, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Their plan was to attach bombs to diplomats’ cars” he said. It suggests a similarity and the same “modus operandi” as the attack, day earlier, in Delhi, India. Israel’s envoy to Thailand said the explosives found in Bangkok were similar to those used in the attacks in Delhi and Tiblisi, Georgia. “From that we can assume that there is the same network of terror,” he said. 

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* Police in Thailand said, on Wednesday 02/15/2012, the third Iranian suspect involved in a series of blasts in Bangkok has escaped into Malaysia. Immigration police chief Lt. Gen. Wiboon Bangthamai identified the third suspect as Masoud Sedaghatzadeh. Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, 31, allegedly a sales employee in a commercial company on Baharestan St, Tehran, was arrested in Kuala Lumpur airport when he tried to leave the country and board a flight to Tehran and is expected to be extradited back to Thailand soon. 

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* In all three cases in Delhi, Tiblisi and Bangkok (see – Delhi-Tbilisi Bombings), the same type of magnetic device was used to stick the bombs to the target cars. It was a component of a magnetic sea mine also used by Iranian navy .

*According to a source at the national security agency, prior to the first explosion at the suspects’ rented house near Sukhumvit Soi 71, witnesses said they saw an Iranian man in his 50s and 150-160cm tall going out of the house with a large luggage case at about 7am (on 02/14/2012 morning).

* A court in Thailand has issued, on Monday 02/20/2012, an arrest warrant for a sixth suspect, named by police as Ali Akbar Norouzi-Shayan, allegedly a retired accountant in Tehran, 57, over an alleged Iranian bomb plot to attack Israeli diplomats in Bangkok. Ali Akbar Norouzi-Shayan, is wanted on charges of possessing and making explosives also in India .He was filmed by a closed-circuit television camera leaving a house rented by the bomb suspects shortly before a string of blasts on February 14, and is believed to have fled to Iran the same day.

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* The Thai police said, on Sunday 02/26/2012, they found out that the Iranian female suspect Leila Rohani rented another room at Nasa Vegas Tower in Khlong Ton district .Police, with a search warrant, raided room number 21434 on the 14th floor of the apartment building and detained an Iranian, identified as Madani Seyed Mehrded, 33.

* An Indian court, on Wednesday 03/14/2012, has issued arrest warrants for three Iranians, Housan Afshar Irani, Syed Ali Mehdi-Sadr and Mohammed Reza Abolghasemi, in connection with a bombing attack. 

Later, on Saturday 03/17/2012, India issued a fourth arrest warrant for Masoud Sedaghatzadeh himself for his role in the Delhi bombing of 02/14/2012.

* Masoud Sedaghatzade was extradited from Malaysia back to Thailand on Monday 06/25/2012.

 

 

 

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