Iran has sent a letter to the United States seeking an “apology” over allegations of an Iranian assassination plot on US soil, foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday.
“A letter has been sent… It is our right to seek the official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario as these allegations are not true at all,” he said. He explained the Iranian letter was in response to a letter sent by the US, the contents of which he did not divulge. Iran and the United States have had no direct diplomatic channels for more than three decades. Iranian officials and leaders have fiercely denied any involvement in the alleged plot, calling it an attempt by Washington to divert attention from domestic economic woes and foreign policy failures in the Middle East. The US and Iran broke off diplomatic ties after radical students in Tehran took US diplomats hostage following Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
