“The Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister did not attend the Amman conference of Iraq’s neighbors in response to accusations made by Jordan’s King Abdullah II”, Atwan Tazakrat on Thursday told US-based Radio Farda.
“Fifteen days earlier, Jordanian intelligence services gave King Abdullah II documents along with a picture of a number of heads of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards standing next to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who was welcomed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards upon arrival from Afghanistan to Iran after the US attack on Afghanistan” he said.
He added, “al-Zarqawi stayed in Iran for three to four months, and Iranian officials did not deny his presence. They provided him with a fake passport with which he traveled to Syria where in mid-2002 he plotted the assassination of an American citizen”.
In response to a question on whether or not the photo had been published, Tazakrat said, “This photo was never publicly distributed but I was able to see it. The source who confirmed to me that the Jordanian King had seen the photo is credible”.
