Iran summons British ambassador over ‘baseless’ accusations
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to convey the Islamic Republic’s strong protest to “baseless" accusations leveled by the UK against Tehran.
Hugo Shorter was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Director General of the Western Europe Department Alireza Yousefi on Friday in response to the repeated "baseless" claims of senior British officials, according to a statement by the ministry.
Britain said on Tuesday that it would require the Iranian state to register everything it does to exert political influence in the UK, subjecting Tehran to an elevated tier of scrutiny in light of what it said was increasingly aggressive activity.
During the meeting, Yousefi said the "spiteful positions" and "unfounded claims" of British officials against Iran are "contrary to the principles and norms of international law and diplomatic practice."
This, the diplomat continued, "will exacerbate the Iranian people’s distrust towards Britain's policies on Iran and the West Asian region."
He urged the UK to revisit its "unconstructive approaches towards the Iranian nation."
The British ambassador, for his part, said he will convey Tehran's protest to London.
On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the accusations "absurd."
“It is absurd to blame Iran for something you excel in and master: illegal interference in other nations' internal affairs!" he wrote in a post on his X account.
Addressing parliament on Wednesday, UK security minister Dan Jarvis announced that he would put Iran's state, its security services and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps into the enhanced tier of an upcoming registration scheme designed to protect against covert foreign influence.
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