Iranian intelligence service suspected of attempted attack in Denmark: security chief

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 30, 2018 / 8:38 AM / UPDATED 14 MINUTES AGO

Iranian intelligence service suspected of attempted attack in Denmark: security chief

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said on Tuesday it suspected an Iranian intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil.

A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with the plot and extradited to Denmark, Swedish security police said.

The attack was meant to target the leader of the Danish branch of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), Danish intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen said.

ASMLA seeks a separate state for ethnic Arabs in Iran’s oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan.

“We are dealing with an Iranian intelligence agency planning an attack on Danish soil. Obviously, we can’t and won’t accept that,” Andersen told a news conference.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-security/iranian-intelligence-service-suspected-of-attempted-attack-in-denmark-security-chief-idUSKCN1N41N4

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1. Link to DW

https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-foils-iranian-intelligence-agency-attack/a-46092945