Iran is willing to cooperate with the Danish security services on the investigation into the allegations that Iranian intelligence officers were plotting an assassination on the Danish soil, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd November, 2018) Iran is willing to cooperate with the Danish security services on the investigation into the allegations that Iranian intelligence officers were plotting an assassination on the Danish soil, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif held phone talks with Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen.
"In the phone conversation between Zarif and his Danish counterpart, the two sides exchanged views on a recent anti-Iran claim by the Danish police with regards to a terrorist operation in Denmark ... Zarif also said Tehran stands ready to work with Danish security authorities to shed light on the conspiracy and reveal the reality," the statement read.
Zarif dismissed Denmark's accusations as "baseless" and noted that Israel was trying to harm Tehran's relations with the EU countries in order to scrap Brussels' attempts to preserve the Iran nuclear deal.
"Meanwhile, Zarif reminded his opposite number of the Danish government's responsibility to hunt for and apprehend members of the terrorist group who confessed to being involved in a recent terror attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz," the ministry added.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) accused on Tuesday its Iranian colleagues of plotting an assassination of an Iranian separatist group official in Denmark. The Danish foreign minister reportedly said that the covert operation by the Iranian intelligence would trigger Copenhagen to impose new sanctions against Tehran.
According to PET, the assassination plot allegedly targeted the head of a Danish branch of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (AMSLA), a nationalist insurgent group advocating for a separate Arab state in Iranian Khuzestan province. The PET head said that three AMSLA members living in the Danish city of Ringsted, including the targeted individual, have been under police protection since spring.
On September 22, the Saudi-backed and AMSLA-affiliated Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahvaz claimed responsibility for an attack involving a gunmen killing about 30 people and injuring 60 others at a military parade in Iran's Ahvaz. Following the attack, Tehran summoned the Danish, Dutch and UK ambassadors, accusing the three countries of protecting Iranian opposition groups.
