Denmark foils Iranian assassination plot

By Joel Gehrke

Published October 30, 2018 7:02pm ET

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Denmark foils Iranian assassination plot — Denmark's Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen speaks during a press conference in Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen, on Tuesday in connection with a police operation last month involving a Norwegian citizen of Iranian descent being arrested in an alleged Iranian intelligence plot to kill an opposition activist in Denmark. | (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Iranian spies were foiled as they plotted to carry out an assassination in northern Europe, according to officials in Denmark.

“The assessment is that an Iranian intelligence agency has planned an assassination on Danish soil,” Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said Tuesday. “This is completely unacceptable. In fact, the gravity of the matter is difficult to describe.”

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