Monday, November 29, 2010

Wikileaks: live update

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates


12.59pm: State-controlled Press TV has more from Ahmadinejad's press conference when he claimed the cables about Iran were deliberately leaked by the US.

In response to a question by Press TV over the whistleblower website's "leaks," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said "let me first correct you. The material was not leaked, but rather released in an organised way."
"The US administration released them and based on them they pass judgment …. [The documents] have no legal value and will not have the political effect they seek," the Iranian chief executive added at the press briefing in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad stressed that the Wikileaks "game" is "not worth commenting upon and that no one would waste their time reviewing them."
12.54pm: Here's more from Ahmadinejad:
Regional countries are all friends with each other. Such mischief will have no impact on the relations of countries.
Some part of the American government produced these documents. We don't think this information was leaked. We think it was organised to be released on a regular basis and they are pursuing political goals.
The state news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that the cables were not credible.
Ahmadinejad
12.47pm: Breaking news from Teharn: The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed the cables as US mischief making. He said the disclosure that Arab states wanted to attack Iran was not genuine leak, but part of a US campaign of psychological warfare.
More follows soon...