Iran dismisses September 11 link

BERLIN: Iran rejected on Saturday a suggestion by a man claiming to be a former member of its intelligence services that it was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Iranian embassy in Berlin said in a statement that claims of a link between Iran and Al-Qaeda were groundless and that the statements were the “contradictory and false declarations of an unknown person.” In the statement the Iranian embassy “robustly denied this rumour, which is without foundation,” and said Tehran was fully committed to the fight against global terror. The man has been called as a witness in a trial being held in Germany of Moroccan student Abdelghani Mzoudi over the US suicide hijackings that killed more than 3,000 people in 2001. The man, identified by the codename Hamid Remz Zakeri, was called on by federal prosecutors to appear at the trial only hours before a verdict was due to be handed down because they were convinced he could incriminate Moroccan student Abdelghani Mzoudi in the attacks. On Wednesday, the court made a shock announcement that it had agreed to wait to deliver its verdict in the case in order to assess the credibility of the new witness. —AFP

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