The United States embassy said that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s claim that the country's representatives had offered the Islamist party assistance to topple the then-BN administration, is false.

"The US has never sought to determine Malaysia’s political leadership. Any account to the contrary is false," David H Gamble Jr, who is in charge of the embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said in a short statement to Malaysiakini early this morning.