TEHRAN, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi on Monday dismissed a U.S. media claim that Iran has the nuclear weapon production know-how, the official IRNA news agency reported.
A recent New York Times report said the UN nuclear watchdog has concluded that Iran has the know-how and "sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable" nuclear weapon.
Qashqavi refuted the claim, saying visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed El Baradei has reiterated the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities.
The media guesswork over Iran's nuclear ability is not valid and not acceptable to the UN nuclear watchdog, Qashqavi said.
The West's media campaign against Iran does not influence the position of the IAEA concerning Iran's nuclear program, Qashqavi was quoted as saying.
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei (L) and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, attend a press conference in Teheran, capital of Iran, Oct. 4, 2009. ElBaradei said Sunday that the UN nuclear watchdog would inspect Iran's new uranium plant near Qom on Oct. 25. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz)
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The spokesman reiterated the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities which are completely and clearly done within its nuclear non-proliferation safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
El Baradei said in Tehran on Sunday that the IAEA has no "concrete" proof of nuclear weapons program in Iran.
The agency is working to deal with the international concerns over Tehran's nuclear program, he said at a joint press conference with Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Thursday held talks with top envoys from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany in Geneva, Switzerland. They agreed to hold a second round of talks focusing on Iran's nuclear issue by the end of this month.
The United States and other Western powers suspect Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing nuclear-weapon materials, but Tehran says that the program has no military component and has rejected calls to halt the effort.
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