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Iran says US claim linking al-Qaeda leader to Tehran ‘laughable’
Iran’s foreign minister dismissed on Thursday the US claim that an Iran-based Egyptian has become the new leader of al-Qaeda, calling it “laughable.”
“I advise White House officials to stop the failed game of Iran-phobia. Creating news about the leader of al-Qaeda and linking it to Iran is laughable,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote on Twitter, accusing Washington of being the “creator” of al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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The US State Department had said on Wednesday that Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian currently based in Iran, has taken over as the head of al-Qaeda following the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri in July 2022.
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