Iran denies allegations of assassination attempt on dissident in Denmark

The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday dismissed allegations by Denmark that Iran was planning an assassination of a dissident living in the European state.

"The allegations are the enemies' conspiracy to influence the expanding Iran-Europe relations under the current special circumstances," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency.

According to Western media, Finn Borch Andersen, chief of Danish security service, said earlier in the day that Denmark has "suspected that an Iranian intelligence service had tried to carry out an attack on an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil."

"A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background has been arrested," he added.

The attack was meant to target the leader of the Danish branch of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, Andersen told a news conference.