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Iran dismisses Egypt´s claims on Hizbullah as an old trick that will not achieve anything

Iran dismisses Egypt´s claims on Hizbullah as an old trick that will not achieve anything
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Source: AFP, 15-4-2009

Iran dismissed on Wednesday Egyptian accusations against Lebanon's Hizbullah as an "old trick" aimed at influencing the Lebanese election this year, new agencies reported.

"Labels against... Hizbullah and (its chief) Hassan Nasrallah are an old and frayed trick and will not achieve anything," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

Mottaki was reacting to Egypt's announcement it had arrested an alleged Hizbullah cell accused of plotting attacks in the country and accused Iran of using the group to gain a foothold in Egypt.
Mottaki also accused Iran's arch-foe "Israel" and "hands from outside the region" of seeking to create problems in Lebanon's parliamentary election to be held in June.

"The Zionist regime will not succeed in this political plot," he said.
Nasrallah said on Friday that one of the men arrested was a Hizbullah agent charged with transporting weapons to Palestinian militants in Gaza but he denied the cell planned to carry out attacks in Egypt.
Hizbullah has lashed out at Egypt for closing its border crossing with the Palestinian enclave.

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