Iran said it was clear that inspectors of the IAEA are providing the US and Israeli officials with confidential information on Iranian scientists and thus will be mulling new ways to interact with the watchdog

Iran said it was clear that inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are providing the US and Israeli officials with confidential information on Iranian scientists and thus will be mulling new ways to interact with the watchdog.

Martyr Ahmadi-Roshan with his young son

Iran's deputy UN ambassador Eshagh Al Habib told the Security Council that Ahmadi-Roshan recently met with IAEA inspectors, "a fact that indicates that these UN agencies may have played a role in leaking information on Iran's nuclear facilities and scientist."

He also accused the world body of failing to observe secrecy over its inspections of nuclear facilities. “There was a high suspicion that ... terrorist circles used the intelligence obtained from United Nations bodies, including the sanctions list of the Security Council and interviews carried out by IAEA with our nuclear scientists, to identify and carry out their malicious acts."

Member of Iran's Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Zohreh Elahian, said on Thursday that members of the committee and some other Iranian officials have discussed the presence of the IAEA inspectors in Iran, and it has been proven that the IAEA inspectors are transferring Iran's confidential information to the United States and Israel.”

Iran should revise the way it interacts with the agency and its inspectors as the current approaches are by no means acceptable, she added.

She emphasized that evidence of previous terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists proved the direct role of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, in the killings and that even the perpetrators of such acts had been trained in the Zionist entity.

Roshan, who was assassinated after a magnetic bomb attached to his car exploded, was the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.