Iran official: Western "clamor" will affect talks

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian official warned that "fabricated Western clamor" over a second uranium enrichment plant in the Islamic Republic would negatively affect its coming talks with world powers, state radio said on Sunday.

Iran's ambassador to the U.N.'s nuclear agency watchdog, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, made the comment a few days before Iran is due to hold a rare meeting with representatives of six world powers in the Swiss city of Geneva on October 1.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday the discovery of a secret nuclear plant in Iran showed a "disturbing pattern" of evasion by Tehran that added urgency to Thursday's talks.

Iran has rejected Western criticism over the plant's construction near the holy city of Qom, saying it is legal and open to inspections from the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iranian state radio said Soltanieh criticized "fabricated Western clamour" about the facility: "This Western approach will have a negative impact on Iran's negotiations with the 5+1 countries," he was quoted as saying, referring to the six powers.

(Reporting by Hossein Jaseb and Hashem Kalantari; writing by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Andrew Roche)