On Sunday, the US news outlet Politico asserted that Tehran may retaliate following January's killing of a top Iranian general by targeting American ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has dismissed allegations that Tehran is weighing the possibility of carrying out an assassination plot as revenge for the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani earlier this year.
The claims were recently made by the news outlet Politico, which cited unnamed American sources as saying that the target could be the US ambassador to South Africa.
He described the allegations as part of the “Trump administration's counter-intelligence campaign against Iran”, slamming the Politico report as “custom-ordered, biased and purposeful”.
He suggested that such a news fabrication would “possibly continue in the future” but would “undoubtedly get nowhere”, adding to “the long list of Washington's continuous defeats in the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
Khatibzadeh also touted his country as “a responsible member of the international community”, which he said “proved its constant commitment to international diplomatic principles and norms”.
He pledged that Iran will “press on with international legal action at all levels in connection with the criminal” assassination of General Soleimani, and that it will neither forgive nor forget the act of terrorism”.
Politico's sources have,…
