Tehran voices protest to Denmark envoy over statements on Iran's secret service

  31 October 2018    Read: 1759
Tehran voices protest to Denmark envoy over statements on Iran

Earlier, Tehran has refuted Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET)'s allegations that Iranian intelligence officers were plotting an assassination of an Iranian separatist group official on the Danish soil, local media reported.

Iran's Foreign Ministry called on Denmark's envoy in Teheran, who lodged a formal protest regarding announcements about an Iranian Secret Service operation in the Nordic state, the ministry's official representative Bahram Ghasemi said.

Earlier, Danish police announced the arrest of a Norwegian citizen with an Iranian background in connection with an alleged Iranian Intelligence attack on an individual in Denmark. At the same time, Norwegian police confirmed they were assisting Danish law enforcement on the issue.


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