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This is an archive article published on September 3, 2011

IAEA: Credible evidence of Iran working on n-weapons

The UN nuclear agency said Wednesday it is increasingly concerned about a stream of intelligence information.

The UN nuclear agency said Wednesday it is increasingly concerned about a stream of intelligence information suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program.

In its report,the International Atomic Energy Agency said many member states are providing evidence for that assessment,describing the information it is receiving as credible,extensive and comprehensive.

The report was made available Friday to The Associated Press,shortly after being shared internally with the 35 IAEA member nations and the UN Security Council. It also said Tehran has fulfilled a promise made earlier this year and started installing equipment to enrich uranium at a new location an underground bunker that is better protected from air attack than its present enrichment facilities.

Enrichment can produce both nuclear fuel and fissile warhead material,and Tehran which says it wants only to produce fuel with the technology is under four sets of UN Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment,which it says it needs for fuel only.

It also denies secretly experimenting with a nuclear weapons program and has blocked a four-year attempt by the IAEA to follow up on intelligence that it secretly designed blueprints linked to a nuclear payload on a missile,experimented with exploding a nuclear charged,and conducted work on components of a weapons program.

 

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