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Source: https://usun.state.gov/remarks/8769
Haley Warns of Increased Iranian International Terrorist Activity
(U.S. Mission to the UN) U.S. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley told the Security Council on Monday: "Iranian assassinations of political opponents are as old as the Islamic Republic itself. While U.S. diplomats were still being held hostage by Islamic revolutionaries in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iranian agents and proxies began a campaign of political murder in Europe, North Africa, and across the Middle East." "Over the last months...multiple European countries publicly decried Iranian attempts to murder dissidents on their own soil....On October 30, Danish officials revealed a plot by Iranian intelligence agents to murder three exiled Iranian dissidents on Danish soil....The French government accused Iranian intelligence of plotting a bomb attack on an Iranian opposition rally in Paris in June....This follows an Iranian-backed attack on the U.S. consulate in Basra [in Iraq]." "These attempts to murder their political opponents on foreign soil reflect the true nature of the Iranian regime. These attacks are precisely the sort of behavior that led the United States to re-impose sanctions against Iran." "In the Middle East...Gaza militants targeted [Israeli] civilians....There is only one side that attacks indiscriminately. One side that targets civilians. One side that terrorizes to achieve its objectives."