IRAN’S insistence that it has not been developing nuclear weapons has been backed up by evidence uncovered by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). If confirmed, it could defuse the long-running crisis over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Quoting authoritative sources, a report by Jane’s Defence Weekly says that inspectors had reached the “tentative conclusion” that particles of enriched uranium found in Iran in 2003 came from Pakistan. Iran has always claimed that the particles, enriched for use in a bomb, had hitched a ride on imported equipment.
Analysis has shown that one particle, enriched to 54 per cent,…
