Iran accuses US of giving IAEA forged documents
Iran accused the United States on Saturday of providing forged intelligence to the United Nations nuclear watchdog as an annual Shiite ceremony was cancelled because Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder and in charge of the shrine, was "ideologically closer" to the opposition.
" Considering that there are no original documents on these alleged studies, there is no credible evidence of link between such forged claims and Iran ... This issue should be closed "
Iran IAEA envoy | State news agency IRNA quoted a top Iranian official as saying Washington provided forged intelligence to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which claimed Tehran had studied ways to make atomic bomb.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, has sent a letter to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei saying the agency had been given documents that lacked credibility.
"The government of the United States has not given original documents to the agency because it does not actually have any credible documents and all those documents are forged," Soltanieh said in the letter quoted by IRNA from Vienna.
"Considering that there are no original documents on these alleged studies, there is no credible evidence of link between such forged claims and Iran ... This issue should be closed."
Posted by: Fred 2009-09-06 |