By Deutsche Welle
17 Jul 2024, 10:23 AM EDT
Iran reiterated on Wednesday (17.07.2024) that it had no plan to assassinate Donald Trump weeks before the failed attack that took place last Saturday, according to US intelligence sources.
“We strongly reject any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump “or allegations that Iran had plans to carry out a similar action,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement. “These allegations have malicious political motives and objectives,” he said.
The diplomat said that Tehran is determined to take legal action against Trump. for his direct role in the 2020 drone assassination in Baghdad of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Al Quds Force, an external branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Iran’s mission to the UN – the only official Iranian channel on US soil, as there are no diplomatic relations – had already dismissed the accusations hours earlier, calling them “baseless” and “malicious.”
Iran has repeatedly called for “avenge” Soleimani’s deathIn fact, the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said two years ago that the Ummah (the Muslim community) would take revenge into its own hands if Trump was not tried for the general’s murder.
And last year, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said that “we seek to kill Trump” over Soleimani’s death in a television interview.
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