Iran's Ahmadinejad denies US assassination claims
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed US accusations that Iranian government agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States.
The charges were a "new US scenario", the president said Sunday in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. Iranians were civilized and had no need to resort to assassination, he said. His statement follows a similar dismissal by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who on Saturday called the allegations "absurd and meaningless." (AP)
