Iran on Tuesday rejected a laptop evidence submitted by the United States that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, terming it as a new fabricated scenario ahead of a UN nuclear watchdog meeting.

"This is a systematic procedure: every time, before a nuclear watchdog agency's meeting, they try to blow up a crisis," Supreme National Security Council Secretary and chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying.

US intelligence officials have recently presented the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a laptop which was said to be stolen from Iran and contained the country's nuclear weapons designs.

Javad Vaidi, Larijani's deputy, was also quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying that the laptop was actually a " scenario" staged by the United States and Israel to launch accusations on Iran.

"Like before, a few days before an IAEA meeting on Iranian nuclear program, the United States and Israel have fabricated a new scenario," Vaidi said, adding that their previous charges and evidence were all proven baseless by IAEA inspectors.

The IAEA's Board of Governors will hold a meeting on Nov. 24, with Iran's nuclear program high on the agenda.

The agency adopted a resolution in late September, urging Iran to re-suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment with the warning of referring the case to the UN Security Council.

The United States accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, a charge rejected by Iran as politically motivated.

Source: Xinhua