TEHRAN--Iran reacted angrily Thursday to U.S. claims that a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp had been detected near its border with Afghanistan.

"Such a camp does not exist anywhere in Iran," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi told AFP, emphasizing the "disagreements that Iran has had from the very beginning with the Taleban and Al-Qaeda". "Such accusations are part of a psychological war," the spokesman said, complaining that "neither the U.S. government nor any other government has given Iran any proof or documents to back up such accusations." "As Iran has asserted on numerous occasions, these accusations are totally baseless."

Quoting unnamed U.S. intelligence sources, NBC News reported late Wednesday that a spy satellite had detected a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp in a remote area of eastern Iran.

It said satellite imagery had shown what appeared to be a camp complete with an obstacle course and a rifle range, much like those used by the international terror network led by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to train for assassinations.

Iran, which for years plied the Taleban's opponents with arms and almost went to war with the hardline Sunni militia in 1998, announced in February that it had arrested 150 Al-Qaeda suspects and deported them to their countries of origin, mostly Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.