Iran on IAEA meeting and row with Afghanistan

Iran urged the UN atomic watchdog on Monday not to make an "unconstructive" decision in their meeting of Board of Governors in Vienna on its nuclear programme.

Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA)  Board of Governors were scheduled to convene on Monday and discuss a slew of issues including Iran's nuclear program.

Abbas Mousavi, spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said a claim by Israel was the basis of allegations against Iran.

He added the documents Israeli officials claimed to have obtained through espionage were decades-old and worthless.

Mousavi warned the IAEA of a "proportional reaction" if a decision against Iran was made at Monday's meeting.

The IAEA last week said Iran had continued to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and remained in violation of its deal with world powers.

It raised concerns about access to two of three locations it identified in March as places where Iran possibly stored and/or used undeclared nuclear material or undertook nuclear-related activities without declaring them to international observers.

Iran's nuclear deal promised Iran economic incentives in return for the curbs on its nuclear programme.

President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal unilaterally in 2018, saying it needed to be renegotiated.

Iran has since slowly violated the restrictions to try and pressure the remaining nations to increase the incentives to offset new, economy-crippling US sanctions.

Mousavi also reacted to protest rallies near the Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan and other countries over treatment of their migrants and refugees by Iran.

"They were only a handful of people and we gave a warning to the Afghan ambassador in Tehran that such actions, insults and offenses are intolerable," he said.