[(Title)] Iranian spy service suspected of assassination plot in Denmark: security chief.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said on Tuesday it suspected an Iranian government intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil.

丹麦星期二说，它怀疑伊朗政府情报部门企图在其领土上暗杀一名伊朗阿拉伯反对派人物。

The alleged plot, which Denmark's foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind, prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

丹麦外交部长说，据称的阴谋是他认为伊朗政府落后的，这促使北欧国家呼吁在欧洲联盟范围内对伊斯兰共和国实施新的制裁。

A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with the plot and extradited to neighboring Denmark, Swedish security police said.

瑞典安全警察说，10月21日，一名具有伊朗背景的挪威公民 在瑞典被捕，与阴谋有关，被引渡到邻近的丹麦。

The Norwegian has denied the charges and the Iranian government also denied any connection with the alleged plot.

挪威否认这些指控，伊朗政府还否认与所谓的阴谋有任何联系。

The attack was meant to target the leader of the Danish branch of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), Danish intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen said.

丹麦情报局局长芬恩·博尔赫·安德森说，这次袭击的目标是针对解放阿瓦兹阿拉伯斗争运动丹麦分部的领导人。

ASMLA seeks a separate state for ethnic Arabs in Iran's oil-producing southwestern province of Khuzestan. Arabs are a minority in Iran, and some see themselves as under Persian occupation and want independence or autonomy.

"We are dealing with an Iranian intelligence agency planning an attack on Danish soil. Obviously, we can't and won't accept that,"  Andersen told a news conference.

安德森在新闻发布会上说：“我们正在与一家伊朗情报机构商讨对丹麦土地的攻击。显然，我们不能也不会接受这一点。”

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi dismissed the accusations.  "This is a continuation of enemies' plots to damage Iranian relations with Europe at this critical time,"  Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.

伊朗外交部发言人巴赫拉姆·卡塞米驳斥了这项指控：“这是敌人阴谋的延续，破坏伊朗与欧洲的关系，”塔斯尼姆通讯社援引他的话说。

The EU is trying to save big powers' 2015 deal with Iran that curbed its nuclear activity in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions after the United States withdrew from the pact and reimposed far-flung financial penalties on Tehran.

欧盟正在努力拯救2015年与伊朗签订的协议，该协议遏制伊朗的核活动，以换取美国退出该协议并再次对德黑兰实施广泛的金融惩罚，从而解除国际制裁。

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called the planned attack  "totally unacceptable"  and said British Prime Minister Theresa May had voiced her support for Denmark during a meeting in Olso.

丹麦首相拉尔斯·勒克·拉斯穆森（Lars Løkke Rasmussen）称计划中的袭击“完全不可接受”，并称英国首相特蕾莎梅在Olso会晤期间表达了对丹麦的支持。

Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen told a press conference he believed the Iranian government was behind the attempted attack.

外交部长安德斯·萨缪尔森在新闻发布会上表示，他相信伊朗政府正在支持这次未遂袭击。

"In light of the latest development, Denmark will now push for a discussion in the EU on the need for further sanctions against Iran,"  Samuelsen said. Denmark's ambassador in Tehran had been recalled for consultations, Samuelsen added.

萨缪尔森说：“鉴于最近的事态发展，丹麦现在将推动欧盟讨论进一步制裁伊朗的必要性。”

"We congratulate the government of Denmark on its arrest of an Iranian regime assassin,"  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a tweet.  "We call on our allies and partners to confront the full range of Iran's threats to peace and security."

“我们祝贺丹麦政府逮捕了一名伊朗政权杀手，”美国国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥在推特中说，“我们呼吁我们的盟国和伙伴面对伊朗对和平与安全的各种威胁。”

Andersen said the arrested Norwegian citizen had denied charges in court of helping a foreign intelligence service plot an assassination in Denmark.

安德森说，被捕的挪威公民在法庭上否认了协助外国情报机构策划在丹麦暗杀的指控。

On Sept. 28, Danish police shut two major bridges to traffic and halted ferry services from Denmark to Sweden and Germany in a nationwide police operation to prevent a possible attack.

9月28日，丹麦警察关闭了两座交通大桥，并在全国警察行动中停止从丹麦到瑞典和德国的轮渡服务，以防止可能的袭击。

A few days earlier, the Norwegian suspect had been observed photographing and watching the Danish home of the ASMLA leader, police said.

In November 2017, Ahmad Mola Nissi, an Iranian exile who established ASMLA, was shot dead in the Netherlands. The Danish security service then bolstered police protection of the ASMLA leader in Denmark and two associates.

Last month, Iran summoned the envoys of the Netherlands, Denmark and Britain over a Sept. 22 shooting attack on a military parade in Khuzestan in which 25 people were killed.

Iran accused the three countries of harboring Iranian opposition groups.

Another Arab opposition group, the Ahwaz National Resistance, and the Islamic State militant group both claimed responsibility for the parade attack, though neither has provided conclusive evidence to back up their claim.

Last week, diplomatic and security sources said France had expelled an Iranian diplomat over a failed plot to carry out a bomb attack on a rally in the Paris area by an exiled Iranian opposition group.

Reporting by Emil Gjerding Nielson, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Teis Jensen with additional reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Terje Solsvik, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin in London, John Irish in Paris; Editing by Mark Heinrich