Iranian Ambassador Slams U.S. ‘Fabrications’ over Alleged Plot
Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi stressed that the U.S. “fabrications” against Iran reveal that Washington “failed” in all the other matters during this critical stage.
Roknabadi handed Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour a letter on Thursday concerning the U.S. accusations of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Joubeir.
He discussed with Mansour the “preparations for the upcoming visit by the Iranian Foreign Minister (Ali Akbar Salehi) to Lebanon.”
Roknabadi noted that “the important issue is that the accused person holds the U.S. nationality along with the Iranian nationality.”
However, Iran has repeatedly denied any involvement and claimed the allegations are politically motivated.
The United States says its chief suspect, an Iranian used-car salesman who is a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Texas, Manssor Arbabsiar, confessed to acting as an agent for his cousin, whom he described as a high-ranking official in the Quds Force that forms part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Arbabsiar is alleged to have tried to contract a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, possibly through the bombing of a Washington restaurant.
But, according to U.S. officials, Arbabsiar's contact in the cartel was a paid FBI informant who raised the alert.
All their accusations “are assumptions and didn’t reach a result,” Roknabadi said.
“We have demanded the U.S. officially and twice to provide us with the documents (about alleged evidence), but so far we have not directly received anything,” he stressed.
over 12 years
Dear Naharnet,
I know it's getting confusing lately, but no, this is still lebanon, not iran. This article should be at best in the middle east section, not lebanon.
over 12 years
@rudy
when Naharnet saw his picture, they probabely thought he was hezbollah...well, it's hard to make the difference really...
over 12 years
US and Fabrications? This is the first time that I hear such a claim!!! Just ask Colin Powell, the man that G. W. Dumbo Bush burned politically. The man is in such a shame that he does not dare show his face anymore. Fabrication and the US? No way.
over 12 years
actually, we lebanese know the difference.
you zionist don't
over 12 years
Bomb Iran and Syria
over 12 years
and thank you wake up to find your pants bombed from within
over 12 years
of course he wouldn t say anything else... just like a child caught eaten chocolate saying i did nothing!
don t try and make us believe that your state is the greatest one and most peaceful one! and all the others are conspiring against you!
I hate to tell you Mr. Ambassador, but it seems that there apparant thrend in your tacticts where you use all of these Quds forces in your clandastine operations whether in Lebanon or elsewhere.