TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran on Tuesday dismissed France's allegations about the involvement of an Iranian diplomat in an alleged bomb attack on a meeting of the notorious MKO terrorists near Paris, calling on French officials to pursue a realistic approach to Tehran.
"We once again reject such accusations and claims and express the Islamic Republic of Iran's strong protest over the arrest of the Iranian diplomat and call for his immediate release," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said. Earlier on the day, the French government claimed that Iran's Intelligence Ministry was behind the bomb attack, freezing assets of belonging to Iran’s intelligence services and two Iranians.