Tehran: Iran on Wednesday rejected the US media reports about the alleged Iranian a plot to kill the former US president Donald Trump, Arab News reported.
The reaction comes after the US media outlet CNN reported that the authorities had received intelligence about an Iranian plot against the former president from a ‘human source’.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations reportedly termed the accusations “unsubstantiated and malicious.”
The tip-off made the US authorities to enhance protection to the former president.
CNN claimed that alleged plot was not linked to the shooting Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, the US National Security Council reportedly said after the killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike, it had been “tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years”.
Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani denied the country having ‘any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump.’
Nasser Kanani, however, said Iran is ‘determined to prosecute Trump over his direct role in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani.’
Trump reportedly ordered the killing of Soleimani, who oversaw Iranian military operations across the Middle East, in a drone strike just outside Baghdad airport.