TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) — Iranian foreign minister on Thursday denied the U.S. claims that an al-Qaeda leader is \”based in Iran,\” slamming such allegations as a \”failed Iranophobia game.\”
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Twitter post, in response to the U.S. State Department\’s claim on Wednesday that it \”aligned with the assessments that al-Qaeda leader Seif al-Adel is based in Iran.\”
\”I advise the White House to stop the failed Iranophobia game. Linking al-Qaeda to Iran is patently absurd and baseless,\” Amir-Abdollahian added.
He called on the U.S. government to also stop giving \”false address,\” noting that those who created al-Qaeda and the Islamic State must be held accountable for spreading terrorism worldwide.
In 1998, a U.S. federal grand jury charged Adel with having a role in the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed 224 people and wounded over 5,000 others.