TEHRAN, Iran (AP)  Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for "spying" on Iran's nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday, in the wake of the latest U.S. intelligence report on the Iranian weapons program.

The note was handed over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which looks after U.S. interests in Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington, the state IRNA news agency said.

"The day the report was issued, the Foreign Ministry submitted a formal note of protest to the Swiss Embassy and demanded an explanation over (America's) espionage activities taking place (on Iran's nuclear program)," Mottaki was quoted as saying.

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