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(CBS News) Seven people were killed Wednesday and dozens injured when a bomb went off inside an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah carried out the terrorist attack. What we saw Wednesday in Bulgaria is part of the escalating tensions between Iran, Israel and the West. A former Iranian agent from that country’s feared Revolutionary Guard corps – a man who’s been on the inside – tells CBS News that a surrogate, stealth war, carried out in the shadows by both sides, has been going on for more than a year. It began with the targeted killings of Iranian scientists working on that country’s nuclear program. Then a computer virus was covertly deployed against Iranian nuclear sites. The virus was designed to make the sites self-destruct. Iran publicly accused the U.S., Great Britain and Israel of being behind the plots. And now, it appears Iran is striking back. “They’re looking at this saying, ‘We’ve got to respond. Aggression has been taken against us,”‘ says former CIA analyst Phil Mudd. “So that’s the first factor. The second factor is, in the background, they’re hearing the drumbeats of war.” That drumbeat is the continued discussion over if or when Israel might launch airstrikes against more than a dozen underground suspected Iranian nuclear sites. But Iran hasn’t backed away. Since the...

(CBS News) BEIRUT – Fierce fighting is being reported in Syria’s two biggest cities. The street battles have left parts of Damascus and Aleppo in ruins, and forced thousands more civilians to flee the violence. Until a few days ago, Syria’s two main cities had been bubbles of relative stability, but heavy fighting is now driving a flood of refugees over Syria’s borders, with thousands fleeing to Turkey or Lebanon. They’re seeking safety from a civil war that has finally come to their doorsteps. “In my home (in the Damascus suburbs), I could see the helicopters bombing and tanks firing,” one refugee told CBS News. In the capital, Syrian soldiers have regained control of neighborhoods that had fallen at least in part to opposition fighters. State television told viewers government troops were mopping up remnants of people dubbed “terrorists” by the regime. Syrian rebels: We will “liberate” AleppoSyrian troops, rebels clash in city of AleppoSyrian troops seize Damascus neighborhood; Activists say 300 killed But as the fighting dies down in one area, it flares up in another. Aleppo has seen fierce clashes over the past 48 hours. The city – Syria’s second largest and 카지노사이트 most important economically – had been a center of support for the president, but that is now clearly fraying. As for President Bashar Assad, he appeared for the second time on television since a...

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