News - Middle East: Iran's Foreign Ministry roundly rejects the Israeli regime’s allegation against the Islamic Republic of harboring a plot to target the regime’s participants and settlers during the Paris Olympic Games.

Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the comments in a post on X, former Twitter, on Friday after the regime’s foreign minister Israel Katz leveled the accusation against the Islamic Republic in remarks to his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne.

Kan’ani denounced the claim as an instance of “hatemongering", which the “child-killing” Israeli regime had resorted to as a “desperate attempt at deflecting the international public opinion away from the [underway] genocide in Gaza.”

He was referring to the brutal military onslaught that the regime has been waging against the Gaza Strip ever since October 7. The campaign has so far claimed the lives of at least 39,175 Palestinians, including more than 16,000 children, and injured upwards of 90,403 others.

The spokesman said the allegation was a means of “escaping forward in the face of the international rage and hatred [that has been incurred] concerning the regime’s war crimes against the oppressed Palestinian people.”