Moscow, June 21 -- Russian President Vladmir Putin said that neither the Kremlin nor the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have evidence which supports allegations of Iran's weaponisation of its nuclear program.

Putin, speaking in an interview earlier with Sky News Arabia, put out on Saturday, said "I have to say that Russia, as well as the IAEA, has no evidence that Iran is preparing to acquire nuclear weapons. We have repeatedly informed the Israeli leadership about this."

On Wednesday, the IAEA director general Rafael Grossi had also said that the UN nuclear watchdog had not seen concrete evidence that Iran has an active nuclear weapons programme.

However, the amount of uranium enrichment detected was said to be much hig...