Iran rejects Israeli blame for French railway disruptions during Olympics

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani has rejected Israeli claims that Tehran and its allies were responsible for the massive disruption of France's railway power grids on the opening day of the Olympics.

"The accusations made by a regime that has killed tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and children over the past ten months, which exceeds the limits of brutality, are ridiculous rather than plausible," Kanani wrote on his X page, Caliber.Az reports.

He called the Israeli Foreign Ministry's statements "a desperate attempt by the Israeli regime to distract world public opinion from the genocide in the Gaza Strip and to run away from the anger and hatred the world feels from war crimes" in the Palestinian enclave.

The diplomat said the Jewish state's actions "contradict the fundamental principles of peace and friendship laid down in the Olympic Charter and prove that [Israel] does not respect universal and international norms."

In France, about 800,000 passengers on the opening day of the Olympics remained at railway stations due to a series of deliberate arson attacks on the electrical network of high-speed railways, the BFMTV TV channel reported. Repair work has already begun and could last two days. Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz held Iran's "axis of evil" influence responsible for the incidents.