Iran on Wednesday strongly condemned the fatal chain bombing attacks in Baghdad earlier in the day, terming them as "inhuman crimes", the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Such measures run counter to human and Islamic principles and values," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted as saying in a statement.

"The suspicious hands at work to target the innocent people and laborers mainly involved in earning their living aim to disrupt establishment of security, stability and economic prosperity in Iraq," Asefi said.

The spokesman stressed that the Iraqi people needed to be vigilant over such crimes.

Suicide bombers on Wednesday waged a series of deadly attacks against the US and Iraqi forces along with civilians in Baghdad, killing more than at least 138 people and wounding more than 200 others.

The consensus among various ethnic and religious groups in Iraq would lead to identification of the hostile elements and would prepare the ground to hold a referendum on Iraq's constitution and tackle such horrible events, said Asefi.

Asefi further blamed the unstable situation in Iraq on the foreign troops based in the war-torn country.

"Worsening of insecurity crisis and continuation of human and material losses in Iraq indicates that despite the claims of the US President George W. Bush, Iraq and the rest of the world have become more insecure," Asefi denounced.

Source: Xinhua