Iran questions nuke intelligence reports

TEHRAN, May 30 (UPI) -- Tehran officials claim the United States is giving false evidence and documents to the U.N. watchdog group looking over Iran's nuclear program.

"All evidence given by the United States against Iran's nuclear program is fabricated," Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, said after a Thursday briefing in Vienna, Press TV reported Friday.

During the meeting U.S. officials focused on what they called Iran's lack of cooperation.

"As today's briefing showed us there were strong reasons to suspect that Iran was working covertly and deceitfully at least until recently to build a bomb," the U.S. permanent envoy to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, said.

Meanwhile top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned of a new "trap" being planned against Iran.

World powers "are not after such information but they intend to obtain a pretext to serve the bad aims over which they have confronted our nation," Rafsanjani said in a prayer sermon, reported al-Alam Friday.