On Monday, Dec. 10, the Associated Press reported from London that a senior British official said the country’s intelligence analysts believe Iran has deliberately fed misinformation about its nuclear program to U.S. spy agencies and are skeptical Tehran halted weapons development in 2003, a newspaper reported Sunday.

“We are skeptical” about the report’s findings, an unidentified senior British official was quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.

The official claimed that Iranian nuclear employees must have been aware the U.S. was secretly listening to telephone conversations, according to the newspaper.

“They (the Iranians) say things on the phone because they know we are up on the phones. They say black is white,” the official was quoted as saying.

“The intelligence estimate that came out this week talked about the weaponization part of nuclear weapons programs _ one of three parts,” Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Sky News on Sunday.

“There are two other critical parts to a nuclear weapons program _ the enrichment, which we know is going on because they boast about it, and secondly the missile testing,” he said. Miliband said Britain will continue to press for tighter sanctions against Tehran.