"France taking strong action against failed Iranian terrorist plot in Paris -- Tehran needs to know this outrageous behavior will not be tolerated," said a tweet from the White House National Security Council late on October 2.
US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters the incident illustrates the US belief that the Iran regime is "the world’s top sponsor of terrorism."
French officials said on October 2 that they were freezing the assets of two suspected Iranian intelligence operatives over an alleged plot to bomb a rally in Paris three months ago.
The event was sponsored by the armed opposition group, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, which Tehran considers a terrorist group but which Western powers have removed from their blacklists.
The display of solidarity between Washington and Paris over the alleged bomb plot comes as France and the United States have taken opposite views of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, which the United States abandoned in May but which France has vowed to uphold.
Based on RFE
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