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| Pakistan found to aid Iranian nuclear efforts |
| 2004-09-02 |
| A new assessment of Iran's nuclear program by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency says that, as early as 1995, Pakistan was providing Tehran with the designs for sophisticated centrifuges capable of making bomb-grade nuclear fuel. It also finds evidence that, as of the mid-August, Iran had assembled and tested the major components for 70 of the machines, which it showed to inspectors from the agency. But the report, issued to members of the agency yesterday as a confidential document, provided no new evidence of the kind of covert programs that the agency has discovered in the last year, and suggested that the Iranian government was slowly becoming more helpful to inspectors. That assessment, American officials said, is likely to discourage moves by the Bush administration to take Iran to the United Nations Security Council for penalties unless it dismantles its program, which the Iranians say is entirely peaceful and which the United States says is designed to produce nuclear weapons. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 But agency officials are still suspicious that some of the uranium could have been produced elsewhere in Iran, at plants they have yet to discover. This is where spies come in. Has the U.S. intelligence community been doing its work quietly for some time? Or is all as it was before and we still have no humint resources in key areas? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-02 12:38:46 AM |