Reuters has mentioned that "information received from an "extraordinarily credible" informer, an Iranian journalist living in France who Pilz calls only "witness D". [... Witness D's information came from one of the alleged gunmen, who contacted Witness D in 2001 but later drowned, Pilz said." Supporters of Ahmadinejad have questioned the credibility of such information, have mentioned that Pilz is a Jew, and have called the media reporting these to be "Zionist media." Hamid Reza Asefi, the spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that, "The charges are so self-evidently false they are not worthy of response. […] We advise the Europeans not to fall into the trap of the Zionist media and to separate their interests from America and the Zionist entity (referring to the state of Israel)."