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Thu 20 Nov, 2003 06:38 am
Quote:VIENNA, Austria Nov. 20 ?- The International Atomic Energy Agency has identified Russia, China and Pakistan as probable suppliers of some of the technology Iran used to enrich uranium as part of its suspect nuclear programs, diplomats said Thursday.
The diplomats spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, as a key IAEA board meeting discussed how to react to Iran's nuclear activities. While Iran has acknowledged nearly two decades of concealment, it has recently begun cooperating with the agency in response to international pressure
As part of that cooperation it has suspended uranium enrichment an activity that the United States had linked to what it says was Iran's nuclear weapons agenda. Iran insists it enriched uranium only to produce power. While acknowledging that some of its enrichment equipment had traces of weapons-grade highly enriched uranium, it insists those traces were inadvertently imported on material it purchased abroad.
source: ap/
3 Countries ID'd As Iran Atomic Providers
I wonder, what consequences -if at all- this will have.
Walter, I think Iran's cooperation for inspections is a good start. The international community has a responsibility to make sure it's not used for weapon's development.
It's the same nuclear power technology that the US and Japan are giving to North Korea.