In an interview in Pakistan with the Iranian news agency IRNA, Pakistani nuclear scientist Abd Al-Qadr Khan denied a report in the Washington Post newspaper yesterday about Tehran's contacts with Pakistan two decades ago vis-à-vis purchasing an atom bomb.
Khan said that there had never been nuclear cooperation between the two countries, and that the report was false.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast also denied the report, saying that the U.S. was sowing Iranophobia so as to justify its continued presence in the region.
Source: IRNA, Iran, March 15, 2010
