Iranian MFA denies US accusation of assassination plot
A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry “strongly denied the false accusation of a plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States,” according to a statement quoted by the Fars news agency.
“This type of behavior, based on old, hostile policies by the United States and Zionism, is a ridiculous scenario that aims to create divisions by enemies of Islam and of the region,” he was quoted as saying. “Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are based on mutual respect, and such a false accusation leads nowhere and will have no effect on public opinion,” he said.
Washington said it had busted a plot conceived at high levels of Iran’s revolutionary leadership to kill the Saudi ambassador, and vowed to hold Tehran to account.
The US Justice Department charged two men with conspiring with factions of the Iranian government to carry out a deadly plot to blow up Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir on American soil.