Euronews spoke to journalist Neyla Chehwan in Beirut where she works for Lebanese television.<br /><br />She witnessed the aftermath of the attack outside the Iranian embassy, for which a group linked to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility.<br /><br />“When we arrived at the scene, there were burned bodies on the ground. I saw a dozen myself,” Chehwan said.<br /><br />“The time lapse separating the two explosions was about 30 seconds. There was shooting between Iranian embassy personnel and the attackers. The attackers could not reach the embassy – which was their goal of course, to attack the Iranian embassy – but they could not reach it, they failed.”<br /><br />“MPs from the Development and Liberation party and Bloc of Resistance rushed to the scene and they announced that the attack was a message to Iran and to the role the country plays in the region, and they insisted that it was against the way that Iran conducts its policies in the region.”
