Iran denies receiving Chalabi intelligence

[Dover]

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.

..snip..

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 >

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E44CD9E9-D911-4757-AA05-B1CE757F916F.htm

[Kagemusha]

1. OK, it's not from Chalabi - directly. That makes him an asset,

not a spy. Anyone feel better now?

[Old and In the Way]

3. Exactly....if there was any doubt of Chalabi's value to Iran, this

answers it. Oooooh, the web is being weaved mighty tight....

[Just Me]

2. Oh, Iran, stick a sock in it. Some nations don't know when to just,...

,...keep their pie-holes closed. The Bush regime is burning in this latest scandal.