Saudi Arabia denies any links to Iran parade attack

riyadh — Riyadh rejected accusations by Tehran that Saudi Arabia was behind last week’s deadly attack on a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, state media reported on Tuesday.

“The kingdom completely rejects the deplorable false accusations by Iranian officials regarding the kingdom’s support for the incidents that occurred in Iran,” a foreign ministry official said, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency.

“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s policy is clear regarding its noninterference in the domestic affairs of other countries,” he said.

On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei charged that gunmen who killed 24 people at the military parade were funded by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, has also dismissed Iran’s accusation as ‘baseless’. “This official campaign launched in Iran against the UAE is regrettable and has escalated since the Ahvaz attack,” Gargash tweeted earlier this week. —