"DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria and Iran will conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing that killed Imad Mughniyeh, a commander of their Lebanese ally Hezbollah, Iran's state news agency reported Friday.
Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of 1980s attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed hundreds of Americans, died Tuesday night in the Syrian capital Damascus.
A Lebanese security official said Hezbollah has appointed Mughniyeh's successor but did not make the name public.
In Tehran, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheik Attar said that during Mottaki's visit to Damascus, which began Thursday, Iran and Syria agreed to form a joint investigation team to "look into the root causes and dimensions of the assassination to identify the perpetrators of this dirty crime," the state IRNA news agency reported.
Syria has not said who it believes was behind the blast. On Thursday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said he expected the perpetrators to be identified soon."
This joint investigation between Iran and Syria shows Iran's determination to find the "perpetrators" of the assassination. Though Syria will not say who they believe was involved, Iran has made public that it believes that Israel killed the Hezbollah leader.
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