Iran rejects U.S. plot allegation as fabricated scenario

TEHRAN, Oct.13(MNA) – Iran on Tuesday dismissed as a fabricated scenario the allegation that Iran had hatched a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.

“The false claim that (Iran) has plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador has no basis in fact,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in a statement.

According to Reuters, U.S. authorities claimed on Tuesday that they had broken up a plot by two men linked to Iran’s security agencies to kill the Saudi envoy, Adel al-Jubeir.

Mehmanparast said, “Such outmoded behaviors are based on old hostile American-Zionist policies and can be regarded as a ridiculous farce and (an attempt) by the enemies of Islam and the region to fabricate scenarios with the aim of provoking division.”

“Such a fabricated scenario is only meant to create division among regional countries and end the Zionist regime’s international isolation,” he said.

He added that Tehran-Riyadh relationship is based on mutual respect, emphasizing that such allegations will get nowhere.