article_snippet.sent: The Washington Post did not mince words on the allegation.
article_snippet.sent: Any charges of that sort would be absurd, the product of fertile and twisted imaginations," the paper said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: the State Department also reacted with term "absurd" after hearing of reports in Iran's press about charges.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Washington Post and the State Department find charges "absurd" 