Group attacks Saudi airline office in Iran
December 14, 2008 – 5:32 pmTEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s state-run newspaper says a militant group has attacked the office of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned airline in Tehran over a Saudi-backed peace initiative with Israel.
Iran newspaper says the group — identified as Ikhwan al-Radwan, or Brothers of Heaven in Arabic — attacked the Saudi Arabian Airlines office with several Molotov cocktails Wednesday, causing minor damage to the building.
Saturday’s newspaper report quotes a statement by the group saying the reason for the attack was Saudi Arabia’s support for an Arab peace initiative.
The initiative offers Israel normal relations with all Arab countries if it withdraws from lands occupied in 1967 Arab-Israeli war and allows the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem.