Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed US allegations about Irans support for the al-Qaeda terror group, describing the claims as an attempt to whitewash the truth about the role US allies had in the September 11, 2001 attacks. A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective AlQaeda ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is denying any link with two suspects charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train. Canadian authorities claim the suspects - 30 year-old Chiheb Esseghaier and 35-year-old Raed Jaser, - had "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida members in Iran, though there was no allegations the planned ...

[caption id="attachment_23974" align="alignright" width="300"] Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi[/caption] A senior Iranian lawmaker has censured the Canadian government for its recent unfounded claim that Iran was linked to a terror plot in Canada, describing the allegation as ridiculous. Chairman of Irans Majlis Committee for National Security and ...

Following this week's revelation by Canadian officials that two suspects detained overa plot to blow up a passenger trainhad links to an al-Qaeda cell based in Iran, I now gather that the Islamic Republic is trying to link up with another radical Sunni Muslim group the Palestinian Hamas movement in Gaza. Iran's vehement denials that it had any involvement ...

(Reuters) - Investigators believe one of two suspects charged in Canada with plotting to blow up a railroad track carrying passenger trains traveled toIranwithin the past two years, U.S. law enforcement and national security officials said on Thursday. Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born doctoral student, traveled toIranon a trip that was directly ...

(Reuters) - When al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri spoke in an audio message broadcast to supporters earlier this month, he had harsh words forIran. Its true face, he said, had been unmasked by its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against fighters loyal to al Qaeda. Yet it is symptomatic of the peculiar relationship between Tehran and ...

As the FBI reels from what now appears to be revelations it was directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombings, a deluge of FBI "success" stories have been "serendipitously" splashed across Western headlines. Among them was an allegedly "foiled" terror attack in Canada, reported to be the work of terrorists supported by "Al-Qaeda operatives in ...

The United States has persuaded Canada to falsely attribute a botched al-Qaeda-linked terror plot to Iran in a last-ditch bid to cover up its support of terrorist groups fighting in Syria. On Monday, Canadian police said they have thwarted what they called an al-Qaeda-supported terrorist plot to attack a major transportation route in the North American ...

Iran news headlines on Tuesdayinclude Iran denial of linking withCanada terror plot suspects;Irans Foreign Ministry remarks overUS-Israel arms dealdestabilizing region;Iranian Armys Ground Forcesmilitary drills in near future andIran welcoming USinitiative on direct talks.   Iran denies link with Canada terror plot suspects Iran is denying ...

Shiite Iran and Sunni Al Qaeda have long had a hostile relationship. While state involvement appears unlikely, Tehran has less control over the country's far east. CouldIranreally have been linked to anAl Qaedaplot inCanadato derail a passengertrain bound for theUS? When Canadian officials made that charge yesterday,it surprised Iran specialists ...

Iran rejected as "ridiculous" on Tuesday a claim by Ottawa that two foreigners arrested in connection with a plot to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area were backed by Tehran-supported Al-Qaeda. "This is the most hilarious thing I've heard in my 64 years," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying, adding ...

TORONTO (AP) -- Two men face a bail hearing Tuesday after their arrest on charges of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, authorities said. The case has raised questions about Shiite-led Iran's murky relationship with the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network. Chiheb Esseghaier,...