Iran condemns Washington state court verdict
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
1390/09/21
12-12-2011
10:11:51
News Code :9009-12394
TEHRAN (ISNA) - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast strongly denied the allegation recently raised by a U.S. state court on Iran's link with al-Qaeda terrorist group and its involvement in a bombing in the U.S. embassy in Kenya in 1998.
Mehmanparast in a statement rejected the claim raised by a Washington state court against Iran and called it as "unfounded and baseless and as part of a scenario designed by the U.S. administration against Iran."
Mehmanparast referred to Washington's support for terrorist organizations and said, “The assassination of nine Iranian diplomats during the capture of the northern Afghan city by Taliban forces is an apparent evidence on the baseless accusation.”
“The U.S. seeks to conceal its own and Zionist regime’s failures in the Middle East through worthless scenarios against the Iranian nation and government,” Mehmanparast noted.
A Washington district court claimed that both Iran and Sudan were to blame for al-Qaeda's simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the U.S. embassies in the East African capitals of Dar el-Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
The court decision was part of a civil suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the plaintiffs in the case were allegedly the victims' families.
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