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An Al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's car bombing outside the residence of Iran's ambassador to Yemen, which left one man dead and 17 others injured.
The Ansar al-Sharia group wrote on Twitter that its fighters had detonated the car bomb outside the diplomat's home in central Sanaa, killing – the group claimed – "many Iranians."
The ambassador, however, was not at home at the time of the attack.
The Yemeni government has described the attack as a "threat to social cohesion and the country's interests."
Yemen has been dogged by turmoil since pro-democracy protests forced autocratic president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down in 2012 after 33 years in power.
The poverty-stricken Arab country has recently appeared on the verge of civil war as the Shiite Houthi group attempts to expand its control of the country after taking over the capital in late September.
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