Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for allegedly spying on its nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday in the wake of the latest U.S. intelligence report on the country's weapons program.
The note was handed over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which looks after U.S. interests in Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington, the state IRNA news agency said.
"The day the report was issued, the Foreign Ministry submitted a formal note of protest to the Swiss Embassy and demanded an explanation over espionage activities," Mottaki was quoted as saying.
The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday concluded Tehran suspended its nuclear weapons program four years ago and has shown no sign of resuming it. That was in stark contrast to a 2005 estimate that said Tehran was continuing its weapons development.
Iran's president hailed the new finding as a "declaration of victory" for his country.
Iran says its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. Tehran has rebuffed U.S. demands that it cease uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make fuel for both energy or nuclear weapons. Tehran says it has a right to enrich uranium under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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