Iran rejects G7's accusations as 'baseless'

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed as "baseless and irresponsible" the recent accusations by the members of the Group of 7 (G7) and their partners.

In a statement on Friday, the group accused Iran and its intelligence services of "transnational repression and (carrying out) other malign activities, such as attempting to kill, kidnap and harass political opponents abroad."

The Iranian Foreign Ministry criticized the accusations as "false," calling them a "flagrant distortion of realities and a hypocritical projection by those ... who have themselves led to the spread of law-breaking and escalation of insecurity in different parts of the world."

It called on the G7 members to be accountable for their inappropriate actions, notably by undermining regional and international stability and security through "complicity and partnership in Israel's flagrant violations of international law" in the occupied Palestinian territories.