BEIRUT: Hezbollah accused the U.S. of involvement in the four explosions that ripped through Baghdad Thursday, urging Iraqis to unite to thwart the plot to divide them.

“These crimes are a new version of the vindictive American project because of the resounding defeat the occupation forces suffered and emerged from humiliated in Iraq,” Hezbollah’s press office said in a statement.

Earlier Thursday, at least 30 people were killed and dozens others wounded after four bombs exploded in mainly Shiite Muslim areas in Baghdad, sparking fear of renewed sectarian strife in the country.

“The terrorists who committed these terrible crimes, those who planned and executed, are cheap tools in the hands of Americans and they are details in the plan to sow discord and strife among Iraqi people as a service for the foreigners,” the statement added.

Hezbollah has maintained that bombings in Iraq are carried out at the hands of the U.S. to cover up its failure in Iraq.