Alwaght- Tehran has categorically rejected a claim by Denmark that the Iranian intelligence was planning to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition leader in the European country.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Tuesday that the publication of such "spiteful" media reports and its attribution to Iran is a plot by enemies to affect Tehran's growing relations with European countries, according to Iran’s Press TV.
He added that the allegation is a sequel to the past conspiracies hatched by “known enemies” who are against good and expanding Iran-Europe relations at the current sensitive conditions.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Danish intelligence chief Finn Birch Anderson stated that a Norwegian citizen of Iranian roots was arrested on October 21 on the charges of helping an “unspecified” intelligence service to carry out an assassination in Denmark.
Denmark recalled its ambassador from Tehran shortly later and called for new sanctions against Iran, claiming that the target was the European-based leader of the Arab Struggle Movement For Liberation of Ahvaz, a Western-shielded separatist group blacklisted by Iran as a terrorist group for carrying out terror attacks in the south of the country in the early 2000s.
Why now?
The Danish claims and ambassador recalling come at a really sensitive time, a week before the US re-imposes sanctions against Iran.
The Danish government did not hesitate to call for the European Union to impose sanctions on Tehran for the so-called assassination plot. This move will appeal to the US President Donald Trump who spent over the past weeks attacking Iran and sending his diplomats out for lobbying to get as many as implementers to the upcoming sanctions as possible.
This will look like a fantastic conspiracy theory against Iran after Tehran apparently succeeded in isolating Trump on the international stage by telling the world how the president’s excuses for withdrawing from the nuclear deal were baseless.
The European powers, Germany, France, and Britain were insisting that the nuclear deal with Tehran should survive Trump’s antipathy and vowed to create a channel for financial transactions with the Islamic Republic separate from the US-controlled one.
China, Russia, and India also threw their weight behind the Iranian deal and promised to keep buying Iranian oil which will soon be subjected to the US embargo.
Trump plans to reinstate a ban on Iran on November 6. The new claims are familiar to those who follow the Western line of actions in the region. Any action will need an excuse, and Denmark appears to be providing this excuse to EU to at least withdraw its support for the deal against US restrictions, something the Iranian leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei foresaw when he advised the government that it should not set hope on the European powers to save the deal.
