Iran dismisses bomb studies intelligence as forged

A senior Iranian official has accused the United States of feeding “forged” intelligence to the U.N. nuclear watchdog that says Iran had studied ways to make atomic bombs.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has lent some weight to Western intelligence reports which imply Tehran secretly combined uranium processing, airborne high-explosive tests and work to remodel a missile cone in a way that would fit a nuclear warhead.

While the IAEA has said it does not have concrete proof of a weapons agenda, it urged Tehran in an August 28 report to resolve the suspicions rather than dismiss information as a fabrication.

But Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh told the IAEA in a letter seen by Reuters that the agency had not provided genuine documents on the alleged studies and the matter was “closed.”

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