Tehran demands compensation for accusations regarding Tehran's nuclear program

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran's government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham on Tuesday demanded compensation from the United States for accusations made in recent years by Washington regarding Tehran's nuclear program.



"The Americans have put a lot of pressure on us and manipulated world public opinion against Iran with their baseless accusations and should therefore pay the price for it," Gholam-Hossein Elham said.



"The whole world is aware that Iran has not even taken one single step contrary to international regulations and that all nuclear centers in Iran are supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - the U.S. should therefore start revising its stance," the spokesman added, RIA Novosti reports.



A U.S. intelligence report released Monday said that Iran halted its atomic weapons program in 2003 and seemed less determined to develop nuclear arms than the Bush administration previously believed.



As of mid-2003, Iran had not resumed its nuclear weapons program even as it was continuing uranium enrichment in defiance of the UN Security Council, the National Intelligence Estimate report added.