TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has rejected accusations of plots to assassinate former U.S. President Donald Trump, while citing legal action over the 2020 killing of a revered general by a U.S. drone strike, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
According to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, quoted by IRNA news agency, Iran “firmly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump or any allegations regarding Iran’s intention to commit such an action.”
Kanaani added: “The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to take legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating martyr General Qassem Soleimani.” Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020.
A death threat from Iran against Trump prompted heightened security measures in the days leading up to Saturday’s campaign rally, but it was not linked to the attempted assassination of the Republican presidential nominee, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, on Tuesday dismissed the accusations against Tehran as “baseless” and “politically motivated.”
