Iran challenges U.S. report
Iran sent a letter to the United States, protesting the U.S.’s spying on Iran’s nuclear program, and saying the U.S.’s contention that Iran had a nuclear program until 2003, according to the BBC.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said a U.S. intelligence report released Monday which said Iran discontinued its nuclear program in 2003 was false. Mottaki denied that Iran has ever had a nuclear program.
“Seventy percent of the US intelligence report is true and positive and the remaining 30 percent, in which they claim that Iran had a nuclear weapon programme before 2003, is wrong,� he said, according to the BBC. “They refused to confess about this 30 percent because they did not want to lose all their reputation or for similar reasons.�