Charges and counter charges-who is telling the Truth?
Iran’s president has said documents appearing to show his country is working on a nuclear bomb trigger were “forged” by the US.
Iranian president Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility
The papers, revealed last week by The Times newspaper, describe a four-year plan to test the neutron initiator.
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the reports about a nuclear trigger were “fundamentally not true”.
Speaking to US TV network ABC News, he said of the documents: “They are all a fabricated bunch of papers continuously being forged and disseminated by the American government.”
Foreign intelligence agencies have dated the documents to early 2007, four years after Tehran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme, the newspaper claimed.
The world powers know the documents are damning but they are choosing to wait until they use them to try and damn Iran.
Sky’s foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall
He said accusations that Iran was continuing work on a nuclear arms plan were “a repetitive and tasteless joke”.
US President Barack Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod has said any accusation that Washington had fabricated documents was “nonsense”.
He added: “Nobody has any illusions about what the intent of the Iranian government is.”
Tehran has insisted its nuclear programme is solely for civilian purposes and rejects Western suspicions that it is covertly trying to develop a bomb.
Mr Ahmadinejad also said Iran was ready to strike a uranium enrichment deal if the US and the West respect the Islamic Republic and stop making threats.
Iran is under three sets of UN sanctions for refusing to suspend enrichment and it risks more after rejecting a UN-brokered deal to send its low-enriched uranium abroad to be further refined into fuel for a reactor.
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