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But those documents have also been regarded with great suspicion by US and foreign analysts. German officials identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the US
State Department as a terrorist organization.
There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.
Iran called the claims "worthless and naive". Hamid Reza Asefi, a foreign ministry spokesman, said: "The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents. It is another fuss ahead of the IAEA board meeting to poison the board's atmosphere."
The revelations came as Iran rejected a compromise proposal, made with US and EU support, enabling it to maintain a uranium enrichment programme as long as that process is completed in Russia.
"What matters to us is to preserve nuclear technology in Iranian hands," Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said. "Nuclear technology is the right of Iranians. It is a right no one can deny."
Another [anti-Iran] official said: "It is one more piece of a strong circumstantial case that they are pursuing a nuclear weapon."