Evidence against Iran Fabricated

Iran has said evidence and documents offered by the US to the UN nuclear watchdog against Tehran's nuclear program are not authentic.

"All evidence given by the United States against Iran's nuclear program is fabricated," Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh told reporters in Vienna after the agency briefed its 35 members on Thursday.

The envoy's comments followed accusations by the United States and its allies that Iran was developing a military version of its nuclear program.

The Iranian ambassador called on the UN nuclear agency to preserve its impartiality and not to turn a blind eye on Iran's good cooperation.

"It is high time that the member states should have a complete picture in order to have a better judgment because… the board of governors has put pressure on the secretariat to give impartial, incomplete reports and has created for the past five years many misunderstandings," said Soltaniyeh.

During the meeting Washington used its influence to focus on what it calls Iran's lack of cooperation, while ignoring the constructive work between the Islamic Republic and the IAEA.

"As today's briefing showed us there were strong reasons to suspect that Iran was working covertly and deceitfully at least until recently to build a bomb," US permanent envoy to IAEA Gregory Schulte claimed.

"Iran is refused to explain and even acknowledge past work of weaponization. This is particularly troubling when combined with Iran's determined effort to master the technology to enrich uranium," Schulte alleged. The Register