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Iran rejects West’s accusations it’s plotting assassinations and kidnappings
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The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran rejects accusations by the US and more than a dozen of its allies that Tehran has attempted to kill or kidnap dissidents, journalists, and officials in Western countries.
In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei describes the claims as “baseless,” calling them “an attempt to divert public attention from the most pressing issue of the day, the genocide in occupied Palestine.”
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