Denmark accuses Iran of plotting attack, recalls ambassador

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Denmark has recalled its ambassador to Tehran and will discuss further action with European partners over an alleged Iranian plan to carry out attacks in Denmark.

"I have decided to recall Denmark's ambassador in Tehran for consultations,” Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen told reporters. 

“Denmark can in no way accept that people with ties to Iran's intelligence service plot attacks against people in Denmark," he added. 

Denmark’s intelligence service (PET) accused Tehran of plotting to attack three Iranian members of an Arab liberation movement – the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz. 

“We are dealing with an Iranian intelligence agency planning an attack on Danish soil. Obviously, we can’t and won’t accept that,” PET chief Finn Borch Andersen said at a news conference earlier on Tuesday.

Denmark’s Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, said they would discuss the matter with European partners. 

“It is totally unacceptable that Iran or any other foreign state plans assassinations on Danish soil. Further actions against Iran will be discussed in the EU,” he tweeted. 

Iran’s foreign ministry has rejected the accusation. 

Calling the allegations “hostile,” foreign ministry spokesperson Bahram Qasemi said they were part of conspiracies to derail Iran-Europe relations that are already struggling to weather America’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal. 

A Norwegian of Iranian origin was arrested in Sweden on October 21 on suspicion of spying for Iran and plotting the attack that is in response to the deadly September attack on a military parade in Ahvaz. 

The Danish foreign ministry summoned Iran’s ambassador to Denmark to give an explanation. 

Iran has been implicated in several assassinations and plots against dissidents in Europe. 

French security officials said they have no doubt Iran was behind a planned attack on opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) during their annual conference in Paris in June. Iran has denied the charge.

Iranian Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was shot dead in Vienna in 1989 – Iranian agents were blamed. 

A German court implicated Iran’s leaders in the 1992 killings of four Kurdish leaders in a Berlin restaurant. 

Iran has also been blamed for the recent killings of Iranian-Kurdish leaders in the Kurdistan Region. 

“Iran will continue to target dissidents outside and inside its borders as long as the international community pursues an appeasement policy towards this regime,” tweeted Loghman Ahmedi, member of the executive board of the Iranian-Kurdish party PDKI, on Tuesday. 

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