Iran rejects ‘baseless’ G7 accusations over fatal attack on Mercer Street tanker
‘It is not a new thing that the Zionist regime would design such conspiracies,’ claims Iranian spokesperson after foreign ministers say Tehran is threat to international peace
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
7 August 2021
Iran on Saturday rejected “baseless” G7 allegations its drones were used in a deadly tanker attack, while accusing Israel of engaging in a conspiracy in a bid to undermine Tehran. Tehran has strongly denied having any link to the July 29 attack on the MT Mercer Street, an oil products tanker managed by a firm owned by an Israeli billionaire, but has faced an increasing wave of accusations in recent days from Israel, the United States and Britain, as well as other countries. A British security guard and a Romanian crew member were killed in the attack.
“We strongly condemn the baseless statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 and the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs in which they have directed baseless accusations at the Islamic Republic of Iran,” foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement. The tanker attack and the accusations against Iran were a manufactured “scenario” with a “notable” timing, he said, as they came before Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office.
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‘It is not a new thing that the Zionist regime would design such conspiracies,’ claims Iranian spokesperson after foreign ministers say Tehran is threat to international peace
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
7 August 2021
Iran on Saturday rejected “baseless” G7 allegations its drones were used in a deadly tanker attack, while accusing Israel of engaging in a conspiracy in a bid to undermine Tehran. Tehran has strongly denied having any link to the July 29 attack on the MT Mercer Street, an oil products tanker managed by a firm owned by an Israeli billionaire, but has faced an increasing wave of accusations in recent days from Israel, the United States and Britain, as well as other countries. A British security guard and a Romanian crew member were killed in the attack.
“We strongly condemn the baseless statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 and the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs in which they have directed baseless accusations at the Islamic Republic of Iran,” foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement. The tanker attack and the accusations against Iran were a manufactured “scenario” with a “notable” timing, he said, as they came before Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office.
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