Iran dismisses Israel's charges of terrorism as "baseless"

A recent letter by Israel to the United Nations which accuses Iran of sponsoring terrorism in Lebanon is baseless, Press TV quoted Iran's ambassador to the UN as saying on Wednesday.

"The letter, once again, contains a flurry of baseless and unsubstantiated accusations that are leveled against my country without, as usual, a shred of evidence," Iran's ambassador to the UN Gholam Hossein Dehghani said.

In a letter to the UN on Tuesday, Israel accused the Islamic republic of flouting UN Security Council resolutions and sponsoring terrorism by smuggling of weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah on board commercial flights.

The Israeli accusation of Iran's violation of Security Council resolutions "is equally baseless and this time amusing too, as it amounts to an innovative in bulk leveling of accusations against a UN member state," Dehghani said.

"At least, a regime that has brazenly flouted all UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions about the lands it criminally occupies is not in a position to broach such a claim against other nations," he said.

Israel has for long been involved in terrorizing and indiscriminately targeting the Palestinian civilians, he added, including women and children, in their own land and in terrorist targeted killings and assassinating individuals in many parts of the world. Endit