Middle East Desk
Report
Tehran: Iran rejected on Tuesday an accusation by Saudi Arabia that it had trained a terrorist cell.
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had arrested 10 people earlier this month and seized weapons and explosives from a terrorist cell that had received training from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. Saudi security authorities, however, did not say where the raid or the arrests were carried out.
“Competent authorities at the presidency thwarted a terrorist cell whose elements received military and field training on how to make explosives, at the Revolutionary Guard’s sites in Iran,” the kingdom’s State Security Presidency said late on Monday. Relations between Riyadh and Tehran have been tense for several years.
