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| Iran Seeks U.S. Apology over Plot Claims |
| 2011-11-02 |
| [An Nahar] Iran has sent a letter to the United States seeking an "apology" over allegations of an Iranian liquidation plot on U.S. soil, foreign ministry front man Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday. "A letter has been sent... It is our right to seek the official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario as these allegations are not true at all," Mehmanparast told a news conference, quoted by the official IRNA news agency. He explained the Iranian letter was in response to a U.S. one, whose contents he did not divulge. Mehmanparast did not give details on how the letters were transmitted. Iran and the United States have had no direct diplomatic channels for more than three decades. On October 11, U.S. officials alleged Iran's Quds Force -- an elite wing the Revolutionary Guards -- plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by hiring assassins from a Mexican narco mob for $1.5 million. An Iranian-American car salesman accused of involvement in the plot pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in a New York court last week. Iranian officials and leaders have fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! any involvement in the alleged plot, calling it an attempt by Washington to divert attention from domestic economic woes and foreign policy failures in the Middle East. The U.S. and Iran broke off diplomatic ties after radical students in Tehran took U.S. diplomats hostage following Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 "Oft 'tis startling to reveal What the murky depths conceal." |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-11-02 03:52 |
| #1 I guess they're innocent since they demanded the apology first. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-11-02 03:05 |