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Wed, 10/12/2011 - 16:02
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Minister: US Targeting Relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Culture Minister Seyed Mohammad Hosseini blasted the US for its recent accusations against Iran, and cautioned that the US seeks to darken the relations between Tehran and Riyadh.
"The US has always sought to sow discord (between Iran and Saudi Arabia) and put forward fabrications to trouble our relations," Hosseini told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
He pointed to the time of Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, and said that the allegations are raised at a time when 100,000 Iranian nationals are due to travel to Saudi Arabia for the religious ceremony.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast had also earlier rejected the US accusations that Tehran has plotted to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington as an unfounded scenario.
"Such worn-out approaches which are based on the old hostile policies of the American-Zionist axis are a humorous act and part of the special scenarios staged and pursued by the enemies of Islam and the region to sow discord (among Muslims)," Mehman-Parast said on Tuesday.
FBI and DEA agents alleged on Tuesday that they have disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States" tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News Tuesday.
The US officials claimed that the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the US officials.
US Attorney General Eric Holder claimed in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" by a faction of the government and called it a "flagrant" violation of US and international law.
Shortly after Holder publicly announced the foiled plot, the US Treasury announced it was initiating sanctions against five people allegedly connected to the plot.
An Iranian representative in Washington, D.C., told ABC News the US government's story was "fake".
The stunning allegations come against a backdrop of longstanding tensions between Iran and the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the last year, Saudi Arabia has attempted to build an anti-Iran alliance to push back against Iran's growing influence in the region. Saudi Arabia has started experiencing a fierce Shiite uprising since late last week and has indirectly blamed Iran for unrests in the al-Qatif region in its eastern regions. The Saudi Shiite leaders and community have dismissed the Saudi officials' allegations, saying that they have been incited only by Riyadh's oppressions and discriminatory behaviors.
"The US has always sought to sow discord (between Iran and Saudi Arabia) and put forward fabrications to trouble our relations," Hosseini told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
He pointed to the time of Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, and said that the allegations are raised at a time when 100,000 Iranian nationals are due to travel to Saudi Arabia for the religious ceremony.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast had also earlier rejected the US accusations that Tehran has plotted to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington as an unfounded scenario.
"Such worn-out approaches which are based on the old hostile policies of the American-Zionist axis are a humorous act and part of the special scenarios staged and pursued by the enemies of Islam and the region to sow discord (among Muslims)," Mehman-Parast said on Tuesday.
FBI and DEA agents alleged on Tuesday that they have disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States" tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News Tuesday.
The US officials claimed that the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the US officials.
US Attorney General Eric Holder claimed in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" by a faction of the government and called it a "flagrant" violation of US and international law.
Shortly after Holder publicly announced the foiled plot, the US Treasury announced it was initiating sanctions against five people allegedly connected to the plot.
An Iranian representative in Washington, D.C., told ABC News the US government's story was "fake".
The stunning allegations come against a backdrop of longstanding tensions between Iran and the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the last year, Saudi Arabia has attempted to build an anti-Iran alliance to push back against Iran's growing influence in the region. Saudi Arabia has started experiencing a fierce Shiite uprising since late last week and has indirectly blamed Iran for unrests in the al-Qatif region in its eastern regions. The Saudi Shiite leaders and community have dismissed the Saudi officials' allegations, saying that they have been incited only by Riyadh's oppressions and discriminatory behaviors.
