TEHRAN; Iran’s envoy to the UN atomic watchdog dismissed as “baseless” today a leaked report expressing concern that it might have been trying to develop a nuclear warhead, the Fars news agency reported.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the documents

cited in the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency were “fabricated and thus do not have any validity.”

“I have also said many times that when they showed these documents to us none of the documents had any confidential or secret stamps on them,” Soltanieh said.

“And thus it was proved that all of the documents have been fabricated and are baseless and thus do not have any validity.

“The issue of the missile or explosives has nothing to do with the IAEA’s charter and function,” he added.

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano expressed concern that Iran might have been trying to develop a nuclear warhead in his first report to the watchdog’s board of governors on Thursday.

“The information available to the agency ... raises concerns about

the possible existence

in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities

related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile,” Amano wrote.

The language of the report was much more blunt than that used

by Amano’s Egyptian predecessor, Mohamed

ElBaradei, who stepped down at the end of

November.