Iran Slams US Calls for Assassination of Iranian Officials

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Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran will definitely take legal action against the US administration over calls for the assassination of Iranian officials.

According to IRNA, Salehi said on Sunday that American statesmen are so brazen that they formally discuss assassinating Iranian military figures in the US House of Representatives and the Senate.

He stressed that Tehran would pursue the case through all legal and judicial channels.

Salehi said that the US administration's anti-Iran bids comes as Washington has been leveling baseless accusations against the country alleging that Tehran was involvement in a plot to kill the Saudi envoy to Washington.

On another hand, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said Iran was sure that the evil voices now emerging from the US Congress to encourage terrorism do not echo the feelings of the American nation.

Supporting Iran's Qods force as a force which is pioneering fighting terrorism, he said that the world was listening to the true voice of America from the Wall Street movement which is calling for an end to the oppressive system presently governing the country.

Reacting to the claims against the Qods force and the call for assassination of its commanders by members of the US Congress, Vahidi referred to the malicious triangle of terrorism, human rights violations and use of mass killing weapons in America's anti-human policies.

He said the US was manipulating the evil triangle to gain its own objectives.

The Iranian defense minister further stressed that the file containing the US treacherous plots and its terrorist acts should be taken to the impartial international bodies to restore the rights of the oppressed people in the world who have been suffering due to them.

On October 26, a number of hard-line American officials urged the US administration to launch covert action against Iran or even "kill" some Iranian authorities over the alleged plot.

Source: News Agencies