TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday dismissed as a "conspiracy" against Muslim countries the death sentence announced by Kuwait against spies allegedly linked to Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. Salehi made the remarks in a telephone conversation with his Kuwaiti counterpart Mohammed al-Sabah, who had earlier announced that an unspecified number of Iranian diplomats would be expelled for alleged spying since the 2003 Iraqi invasion.
"The old issue raised by a court in Kuwait and linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran is a plan pursued by those malevolent (forces) that do not desire good relations between the two countries," Salehi was quoted as saying by IRNA.
"This (plan) is nothing but a conspiracy aimed at creating discord between Islamic countries in the region," he added. On Tuesday a Kuwait City court sentenced to death two Iranians and a Kuwaiti national for allegedly belonging to an Iranian spy ring.
Comments
Comments are closed.