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Japan's Icom: Highly Unlikely Wireless Devices That Exploded in Lebanon Are Our Products

A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
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Japan's Icom: Highly Unlikely Wireless Devices That Exploded in Lebanon Are Our Products

A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
A sign with the logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom (C, top) is displayed at a shop that specializes in wireless devices in Tokyo's Akihabara electric district on September 19, 2024. (AFP)

Japan's Icom said it was highly unlikely that wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon were the company's products.

Pictures of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that exploded on Wednesday showed labels reading "ICOM" and "made in Japan".

"In light of multiple pieces of information that have been revealed so for, chances are extremely low that the wireless devices that exploded were our products," Icom said in a statement dated on Friday.

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Iran Denies Targeting Ex-US officials

25 September 2024, US, Cherokee: Former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally inside the Mosack Group manufacturing warehouse in Mint Hill. Photo: Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
25 September 2024, US, Cherokee: Former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally inside the Mosack Group manufacturing warehouse in Mint Hill. Photo: Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Iran Denies Targeting Ex-US officials

25 September 2024, US, Cherokee: Former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally inside the Mosack Group manufacturing warehouse in Mint Hill. Photo: Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
25 September 2024, US, Cherokee: Former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally inside the Mosack Group manufacturing warehouse in Mint Hill. Photo: Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Iran said on Thursday that accusations it had targeted former US officials were baseless, after former US president Donald Trump implicated Iran, without offering evidence, in assassination attempts against him.
"It is obvious that such accusations are just a part of creating the election atmosphere in the US...., and not even worth a response," Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said in a statement.
Trump, the Republican candidate to return to the presidency, said on Wednesday Iran may have been behind recent attempts to assassinate him and suggested that if he were president and another country threatened a US presidential candidate, it risked being "blown to smithereens.”
"There have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran, but I don’t really know," Trump said at an event a pipe-fittings plant in Mint Hill, North Carolina.
Trump made his remarks after US intelligence officials briefed him a day earlier on "real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him," according to his campaign.
Federal authorities are probing assassination attempts targeting Trump at his Florida golf course in mid-September and at a rally in Pennsylvania in July. There has been no public suggestion by law enforcement agencies of involvement by Iran or any other foreign power in either incident.