US denies role in Iran terror despite claims by LA group
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Security officials at the scene of a remote-controlled bomb explosion in which an Iranian university lecturer was killed.
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“The idea that charged the United States with having anything to do with a murder in Tehran in absurd,” Gordon K Duguld, Deputy Spokesman of the US State Department said late Tuesday.
The American denial comes despite the fact the US-based monarchist group, the Iran Royal Association, declared responsibility for the terrorist attack only hours after the incident. It announced in a statement that its “Tondar Commandos” were behind the assassination of Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi.
The obscure monarchist group, which seeks to reestablish the Pahlavi reign in Iran, operates a radio broadcast station in the United States and had previously stated that they were based in Los Angeles.
Washington, however, denied any knowledge of the group’s statements.
“I’m unaware that this group has made any claim whatsoever,” Duguld told a Press TV correspondent.
The Iran Royal Association, headed by Foroud Fouladvand, is also responsible for a deadly bombing in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz back in April 2008, during which 13 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.
Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the University of Tehran and a devoted advocate of the Islamic Revolution, was killed when a booby-trapped motorbike exploded in front of his home in northern Tehran on Tuesday.
Iran charged Israel and the US with responsibility in the terrorist act based on their persistent threats against the Iranian nuclear program and their continued and public support of measures to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
“Primary investigations into the assassination revealed signs of the involvement of the Zionist regime [Israel], the US and their surrogates in Iran,” the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has also reacted to the remarks, saying that “any suggestion that the CIA played a role here is flat wrong.”
The United States Congress has been legislating an annual budget for more than two decades that is officially allocated for measures to destabilize and overthrow the Islamic government in Iran.
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