Iran warns on nuclear cooperation, rattles sabre over Gulf

TEHRAN: Iran warned on Tuesday it will not respond to every adverse claim about its nuclear drive, after a damning report from the UN atomic watchdog left the global community divided about future action.

Amid fears that one response might be a US or Israeli strike on Tehran's nuclear programme, a top aide to Iran's supreme leader again raised the spectre that Iran could bring oil shipments from the Gulf to a halt if attacked.

"We are against offering the agency an open door once more and that they expect Iran to respond to any claim," said Alaeddin Borujerdi, head of parliament's national security and foreign affairs commission.

"We do not think there should be an open forum so America can bring up a new claim every day and pass it on to the agency, expecting Iran to address any claim," Borujerdi was quoted as saying by state news agency.