Iranian spy service suspected of assassination plot in Denmark: security chief

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Iranian spy service suspected of assassination plot in Denmark: security chief

By Emil Gjerding Nielson and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said on Tuesday it suspected an Iranian government intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil. The alleged plot, which Denmark's foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind, prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic. A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection ...

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Oct 31, 2018

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