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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to appear on Fox and CBS news programs on Sunday to link Iran to last week’s terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria, and to drive home the point that if this is how Tehran acts without nuclear weapons, imagine what its behavior would be with them.

The interviews are part of a stepped-up diplomatic campaign following Burgas to get the world to not only condemn Iran for the incident, but also to take measures against it for its support and involvement in international terrorism.

According to Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev, the Iranian government’s denials of involvement in terrorism – including in Burgas, where five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed on Wednesday – “simply have no credence whatsoever.”

Regev said that a terrorist involved in the attack on the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February was first recruited by the Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told parliament he hoped that the investigation would be done in three to four days.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday that Israel was certain the attack was carried out by Hezbollah. Defense officials said that it was possible that the cell behind the attack crossed into Bulgaria from Turkey or consisted of local Muslims who were recruited into the Lebanese-based organization.

“It is clear that Hezbollah is behind the attack as part of the series of events that we have seen over the past few weeks and months,” Barak said. “At the same time, we do not know who the bomber is, but we can tell that he looks European.”

Barak rejected claims that the attack represented an intelligence failure for Israel.

“There is no country whose intelligence-gathering capabilities have a wider range than Israel’s… I don’t think we have anything to apologize for,” the defense minister said.

Jerusalem Post staff contributed to the report