Iran roundly dismisses claims of assassination plot targeting Trump
Iran has categorically denied "baseless" claims of an assassination attempt on American soil targeting Republican president-elect Donald Trump just weeks before the November 5 election.
In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the allegations as “completely baseless and unsubstantiated,” a day after the US Justice Department unsealed criminal charges that include details of a plot allegedly backed by Iran to kill Trump before Tuesday’s election.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) instructed a contact to develop a plan to surveil and ultimately kill the businessman-turned-politician.
Baghaei said the repetition of such claims at this juncture is “a malicious conspiracy by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles aimed at further complicating the issues between the United States and Iran.”
It came after Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election on Wednesday. On July 13, Trump survived an assassination attempt, suffering only minor injury to his ear.
In August, Iran dismissed having any connection with a Pakistani individual allegedly arrested in the United States and charged with being behind a foiled plot to assassinate US politicians.
The US, under then-president Trump, unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear accord signed in 2015 with Iran and imposed a series of draconian sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Trump also admitted having ordered the assassination of Iran's legendary anti-terror commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
Baghaei underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran will utilize “all legitimate and legal means at domestic and international levels to restore the rights of the Iranian nation.”
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