Iran protests US 'spying'
Iran demands explanation for US 'spying' on nuclear weapons work
Tehran: Iran has sent a formal letter to the United States accusing it of spying on Iran's nuclear activities.
Iran's protest follows a US report this week that Tehran stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003 and has not resumed it since.
Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday that the report indicated US intelligence agencies based their findings on "satellite and espionage activities".
IRNA news agency quoted Mottaki as saying that the report included "facts and lies" about Iran's real nuclear weapons program.
"Seventy percent of the US intelligence report is true and positive and the remaining 30 per cent, in which they claim that Iran had a nuclear weapon programme before 2003, is wrong," he said on Saturday.
In the letter, Iran called for "explanations on the US espionage", Mottaki said.
