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Disarmament DocumentationBack to Disarmament Documentation IAEA brands US Report on Iran 'erroneous' and 'misleading', September 12, 2006The IAEA has described a US report on Iran's nuclear programme as 'erroneous' and 'misleading'. In a letter to Peter Hoekstra, head of the US House of Representatives' Select Committee on Intelligence, the IAEA took "strong exception to the incorrect and misleading assertion" that the IAEA removed senior safeguards inspector Chris Charlier for "allegedly raising concerns about Iranian deception" over its programme. Full text of the IAEA letter. Full text of the US Report, Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States, Staff Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy August 23, 2006 Source: BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk. © 2006 The Acronym Institute. |