False Allegations Concerning Iran's Nuclear Program?

Iran's U.N. ambassador on Monday accused an Iranian opposition group on the U.S. and European Union terror blacklist of fabricating allegations that his country tried to make nuclear weapons in the 1990s.

Ambassador Mohammad Khazee said the United States was getting unreliable intelligence from the Mujahedeen Khalq, also known as the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which helped Saddam Hussein during the war Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

He insisted that Iran has resolved all six outstanding issues about its nuclear program — which the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in its report last Friday — and Tehran should not face any new U.N. sanctions. He warned that new sanctions would harm "the credibility" of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice disputed the Iranian assessment, saying the IAEA report provides "very strong" grounds for the Security Council to move ahead quickly with new sanctions. She cited the government's refusal to suspend enrichment — as the council has demanded — and its failure to respond credibly to U.S. allegations that Iran conducted weapons research into high explosives and missile design in the 1990s.

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While Iran believes that U.S. accusations concerning the nuclear program are senseless and were initiated by unreliable resources, the U.S. states that they have "very strong" reasons to follow their instincts and impose new sanctions on Iran.

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