Iraqi National Congress director Ahmed Chalabi on Sunday staunchly denied allegations that he passed sensitive US secrets to Iran.
"I've never passed any classified information to Iran," he told the "Fox News Sunday" television program.
He made the denials as US officials continued their probe into whether and how the controversial Iraqi politician formerly a Pentaton favourite betrayed the trust of his US backers, and following raid last week on INC offices and Chalabi's home in Baghdad in which documents, computers, personal belongings and weapons were seized.
"This charge is false," said Chalabi, who broke ties with the US-led coalition authorities after the raid.
"(These) charges have been put out by George Tenet," Chalabi alleged, referring to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who has long urged Washington to sever its ties to him.
General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that Iraqi authorities are handling the case against Chalabi.
The raid came one day after Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz announced that the Pentagon had halted 340,000 dollar monthly payments to Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress for intelligence gathering.
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