Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has denounced allegations surrounding Tehran’s nuclear programme as “the century’s biggest lie”, state-run Press TV reports.
At an event in Tehran, he said the fabricated narrative has been used by the US and its allies as a pretext for decades of pressure and economic restrictions against the Iranian nation.
“Perhaps no lie as big as the ‘Iranian threat’ has been fabricated in the world over the past 70 or 80 years,” Baqaei said.
Despite finding no evidence of any diversion in Iran’s nuclear programme toward non-peaceful objectives, he added, the US and its allies had refused to abandon the allegations.
