Iran rejects report of recruiting Iranian-born citizens in Palestine for attacks on Israel

By Merve Aydogan

HAMILTON, Canada (AA) - Iran’s permanent mission to the UN on Monday dismissed a report claiming that Iran is recruiting Iranian-born citizens within the occupied Palestinian territories for intelligence-gathering and potential attacks on Israeli officials.

"The report is unfounded and, from a logical standpoint, unlikely to be accurate," the mission said in a statement. "That’s because the natural course of suspicion in the view of the Zionist regime would first fall upon individuals of Iranian origin, followed by Muslims".

"Therefore, reason dictates that Iranian intelligence services would pursue non-Iranian and non-Muslim individuals," it added.

The mission said that Israeli officials recently alleged Iran was working with Iranian-born citizens in Palestine to collect sensitive information for a possible missile attack or assassination targeting Israeli authorities.