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Iran on Tuesday rejected U.S. claims that Iran was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington.Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the claims a "prefabricated scenario" and a "ridiculous show.""These old-fashioned behaviors are based on the long-standing hostile American-Zionist policies and are ridiculous show in line with scenarios to provoke division," the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Mehmanparast as saying Tuesday.The spokesman was reacting to charges by the U.S. Justice Department accusing agents of the Iranian government of involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States , with help from a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel."Designers of such prefabricated scenarios seek to create divisions and help the Zionist regime get of isolation," Mehmanparast was quoted as saying.Earlier, IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, called the accusations by the U.S. Justice Department as "America's ...
Is Iranian government to blame?
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Stopping Iran's nuclear program
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Naturalized U.S. citizen charged with planning to assassinate Saudi ambassador in D.C.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's foreign minister on Monday offered to look into charges that agents of his government were involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassa...
The U.S. government is implicating officials high up in Iran's special operations Quds Force over the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington ...
TEHRAN -- The Iranian government wrote a letter to Washington seeking an apology for allegations that Iran backed a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to ...
A man charged in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States has pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom.Manssor Arbabsiar, who did not s...
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A judge on Tuesday scheduled an October trial for a man charged with plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, saying it would be unfair to ...
A U.S. citizen-turned-covert Iranian operative received 25 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in a plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United ...
The alleged Iranian government-backed plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is quickly exacerbating already flaring tensions between Washingt...
A rare visit by Iran's intelligence chief to Saudi Arabia sought to refute U.S. claims that Tehran planned to kill the kingdom's ambassador to Washington, a senior I...