Iran rejects US 'ridiculous claims'

Iran has strongly rejected the allegations by the US that the country is involved in the training, financing and arming of Iraqi insurgents.

US officials have always been leveling 'baseless and ridiculous' accusations at Iran without providing any proof, Iran's Mehr news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Monday as saying.

A senior US military commander, Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner, had earlier accused the Quds Force -- a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps-- of training groups of 20 to 60 Iraqi insurgents at a time and sending them back to Iraq to fight US troops there. Press TV