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Article: Iran rejects as "baseless" US claims on Iran's nuclear program
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 11, 2003
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Iran rejects as "baseless" US claims on Iran's nuclear program
TEHRAN, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Tuesday rejected as "
baseless" US claims that Iran is using its nuclear program as a
pretext for developing nuclear arms.
"Iran's nuclear program is of peaceful nature and totally
transparent," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
On Monday, US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the
United States was concerned over Iran's nuclear program, accusing
Tehran of using "supposedly peaceful nuclear program as a pretext for
advancing a nuclear weapons program."
The US concerns heightened as Iranian President Mohammad ...