Minister: Iran would look at plot evidence

TEHRAN, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Iran would look at evidence, even if it were false, that an Iranian plotted to kill Saudi Arabia's envoy to the United States, Iran's foreign minister said.

"We are prepared to consider any issue, even if it is falsely created, with patience. We have asked the United States to provide us with the relevant information regarding this scenario," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the Islamic Republic News Agency.

The U.S. State Department said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice met with Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's permanent U.N. representative, last week about the alleged plot, but a senior Iranian official denied it, CNN reported.

"There were no kinds of negotiations between the two countries, and there was not such a contact," said Alireza Miryousefi, press secretary for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations.

Salehi said Monday the U.S. allegations of a plot were meant to create friction among countries in the region. He claimed Iran never was involved in terrorist operations, IRNA said.

U.S. authorities accused Iran of involvement in a plot to kill the Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, this spring. The alleged plot had a connection to the elite Quds of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.