Tehran, 9 November 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Iran has strongly denied that it had planned to assassinate US President-elect Donald Trump, following an accusation on Friday by the US Justice Department.

In a statement on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the claim is "completely unfounded and baseless."

Baghaei said similar accusations had been made in the past and that their repetition in the current period was a "vile conspiracy" aimed at further complicating relations between the United States and Iran.

A few weeks ago, Trump's campaign team announced that it had been informed by the US Secret Service about real and concrete threats from Iran to assassinate him.

The US judiciary has brought charges against three men, who are also accused of plotting to assassinate an Iranian dissident. Arrest warrants have been issued for the men.

During his first term as US president, Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran, imposed new sanctions against the country and classified the elite military Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization.

In 2020, the US military killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Trump's orders.

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