Iran denies receiving Chalabi intelligence
Wednesday 02 June 2004, 16:17 Makka Time, 13:17 GMT
Iran has denied a US newspaper report that it received intelligence damaging to the United States from Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi.
"All of this is false," the Islamic republic's top national security official Hassan Rowhani said. "We have no relations in regard to intelligence."
The New York Times said on Wednesday that Chalabi, who has fallen out of favour with Washington, tipped off an Iranian intelligence official that Washington had broken Iran's secret communications code.
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US intelligence was tipped off to Chalabi's alleged betrayal when it read a cable the Baghdad station chief sent to his superiors in Iran detailing his conversation with Chalabi.
In the cable, the Iranian official said Chalabi had told him that a drunk American had told him the US had broken the Iranian code.
But Rowhani laughed off the report.
"Iraq is our neighbour, and not overseas. We can go and get cables ourselves, not send a telex," he asserted...cont'd >
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