TEHRAN, July 18 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Wednesday dismissed U.S. media reports of Tehran’s plot of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
In a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry early Wednesday, Kanaani made the remarks in response to CNN’s claim on Tuesday that U.S. authorities “obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service beefing up security around the former president.”
Kanaani stressed that Iran was determined in Trump’s prosecution owing to his direct role in the “crime” of assassinating top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.
However, Tehran strongly rejected any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump or claims that the country intended to take such an action, said Kannani, noting, “Such claims are made based on biased political objectives and motivations.”
