It said that the global network of al-Qaeda was eradicated after the death of Osama bin Laden and there is no such organization anymore but its radical ideology persists.
Daesh group replaced al-Qaeda and created a new form of terrorism, it added.
Rejecting the US claims about Iran hosting a new al-Qaeda leader, the Iranian mission in the United Nations said that such misinformation can potentially prevent the efforts for a fight against terrorism.
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