Iran says nuclear suspicions are 'fabricated ambiguities'
VIENNA - Iran dismissed on Tuesday as "fabricated ambiguities" suspicions that it has carried out nuclear arms research, a day after it came under renewed Western pressure to help clear up UN watchdog concerns about its atomic energy programme.
Addressing an annual meeting of the 162-nation International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), senior official Behrouz Kamalvandi also said Iran was committed to trying to reach a negotiated solution to its decade-old nuclear dispute with the West.
"However, measures such as sanctions or double standard approaches certainly harm the negotiating process and cause further mistrust," Kamalvandi, vice chairman of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said.
