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    Malaysia on Wednesday arrested a suspected Iranian terrorist accused of plotting to kill an Israeli diplomat, a day after he fled Bangkok, where his rented house exploded, injuring another Iranian believed to be a bomb maker.

  • On Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officials examine the damage caused by a blast at the house where suspected bomber Saeid Moradi was staying in Bangkok. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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    Israeli officials ramped up accusations Wednesday that Iran was launching covert attack plots, saying "sticky" bombs found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.

  • ** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, about 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (Associated Press)

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  • Police officers stand around an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomatic car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

    India vows to find person behind Israel attack

    Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomatic car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies.

  • An injured person is carried Feb. 13, 2012, from a burning car belonging to the Israeli Embassy following an explosion in New Delhi. The wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in the explosion, the same day an Israeli Embassy staffer in Georgia found a bomb underneath his car, which was dismantled before exploding, according to Indian and Israeli media reports. (Associated Press/Economic Times)

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    Israeli officials on Monday accused Iran of targeting diplomatic staffers in car bomb attacks in New Delhi and Tblisi, Georgia.

  • A car belonging to the Israeli Embassy goes up in flames Monday in New Delhi after a magnetic bomb attached to the car exploded, injuring four people. A similar bomb on an Israeli diplomatic car in Georgia was defused. (Economic via Associated Press)

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  • Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (AP Photo)

    New U.S. sanctions on Iran aim to head off Israel

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  • ** FILE ** Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Khaled Mashaal (right), chief of the Islamic militant group Hamas, sit with Qatar's crown prince, Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, as they sign a reconciliation agreement in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Thaer Ghanaim, Palestinian President's Office)

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    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to visit the United States at the beginning of March and may meet with President Obama to discuss Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program and unrest in the Middle East.

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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), followed by his wife, Sara, casts his vote during the Likud party primary elections in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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  • In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, Jewish settlers walk near the remaining foundations of a demolished house, with a sign wishing its rebuilding, in the unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlement of Migron. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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