Iran confirmed the expulsion of a German diplomat about a week after a Der Spiegel news report on an Iranian diplomat being ejected from Germany last July after he tried to acquire components for Tehran's disputed nuclear program. "Those in charge recognized that non-diplomatic activities are being undertaken and announced that this diplomat should leave the soil of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesman Muhammad Ali Hosseini told a news conference Sunday. He gave no further details and did not clarify if the diplomat was responsible for the "non-diplomatic activities." Berlin only said that a diplomat left Tehran.