Iran's U.N. mission has strongly deniedNo, no! Certainly not!
a U.S. newspaper report alleging evidence existed implicating Tehran or its Lebanese ally Hizbullah in international liquidation plots, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
| Then his lips fell off. |
The mission called the allegation "baseless" and stressed that Iran itself had been "the biggest victim of terrorism in recent years," with the liquidation of several of its nuclear scientists.
The Washington Post report on Monday cited unnamed U.S. and Middle Eastern security officials as saying evidence had been amassed showing Iran or Hizbullah were behind plots to kill two Saudi officials, half a dozen Israelis, several Americans and other targets in at least seven countries, including Azerbaijan.
Sources told the paper the plots were seen as part of an ongoing covert war in which Iran also has been the victim of liquidations.
It claimed that activity for the plots abruptly halted earlier this year, when Iran agreed to hold talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program.
The last round of the talks, between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group comprising the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China and Russia, took place in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
last week and ended inconclusively.
The next round of those talks are to take place in Moscow on June 18-19 as both sides publicly harden their positions for what are likely to be extremely tense negotiations over Iran's controversial nuclear program and Western sanctions.