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Iran Rejects Accusations it Was Involved in Plots to Assassinate Trump

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. AFP
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. AFP
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Iran Rejects Accusations it Was Involved in Plots to Assassinate Trump

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. AFP
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. AFP

Iran has rejected accusations regarding plots to assassinate former US President Donald Trump, while citing legal action for the 2020 assassination of a revered general by US drone, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.

IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani as saying Iran “strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack on Trump or claims about Iran’s intention for such an action.”

Kanaani added, "Iran is determined to pursue legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating Martyr General Qassem Soleimani.”

Soleimani was the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and was killed in a US drone attack in Baghdad in January 2020.

A threat on Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security in the days before Saturday’s campaign rally, but it was unrelated to the assassination attempt on the Republican presidential nominee, two US officials said Tuesday.

Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, on Tuesday rejected the accusations against Tehran as “baseless” and “politically motivated.”

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Russia, Ukraine Swap 95 Prisoners of War Each

The POW swap was the 54th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. - The AP
The POW swap was the 54th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. - The AP
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Russia, Ukraine Swap 95 Prisoners of War Each

The POW swap was the 54th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. - The AP
The POW swap was the 54th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. - The AP

Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, officials in both countries said Wednesday, three weeks after their last swap and as part of what have been occasional agreements to send captured troops home.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Russian Defense Ministry reported the exchange.

The POW swap was the 54th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.

Officials from the warring countries meet only when they swap their dead and POWs, after lengthy preparation and diplomacy. Neither Ukraine nor Russia discloses how many POWs there are in total, according to The AP.

Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging service that the United Arab Emirates had again brokered the agreements. The UAE has said it maintains friendly relations with both Moscow and Kyiv.

Zelenskyy posted photos of mostly gaunt servicemen with shaven heads and wrapped in Ukrainian flags standing in what appeared to be an open area of countryside.

“No matter how difficult it may be, we are looking for everyone who may be in captivity. We have to return everyone,” Zelenskyy wrote in the post.

Among the released Ukrainians were some who had spent more than two years in captivity. They were captured in Mariupol, during Russia’s early offensive in the Kyiv region and battles in the eastern Luhansk region, the country's Coordination Headquarters for POWs said.

It said just over 3,400 people, both civilians and military, have returned from Russian captivity since the outbreak of the war.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the freed Russian soldiers will be flown to Moscow for medical treatment and rehabilitation.