TEHRAN, November 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Iran summoned Saturday, November 1, the British ambassador to express protest over remarks made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said that Iran's nuclear cooperation was a direct result of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry told Ambassador Richard Dalton that Blair's comments were "illogical," Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported according to the state news agency IRNA.

"We summoned the British Ambassador yesterday and told him of our displeasure," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.

"We do not accept this kind of thinking and we think it is very ugly for a politician who is encountering problems in his own country as well as in Iraq to start accusing others," Asefi added.

The director General of the West European Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Ebrahim Rahimpur, dismissed Blair's comments as "irrational" and were part of a bid to avoid questions over the war in Iraq as well as domestic problems.

The furor was a response to reported comments by Blair that military action against Iraq had produced "positive results", including greater Iranian cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The British premier told the BBC radio on Thursday, October 30, that global commitment shown in the Iraq war to counter weapons of mass destruction pushed the Iranians to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog over their atomic program.

Blair said that military action against Iraq had produced "positive results", including greater Iranian cooperation with the IAEA

Last month, Iran agreed  to allow tougher U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities, provide full cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and suspend uranium enrichment.

The decision came 10 days before the October 31 deadline  imposed by the IAEA on Iran to fully disclose details of its nuclear program and urged it to sign the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).