Findings Back Tehran’s Denials on Uranium
From Times Wire Reports
New findings by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency appear to strengthen Iran’s claim that it has not enriched uranium domestically, diplomats said.
The diplomats said the IAEA had established that at least some enriched particles found in Iran originated in Pakistan.
The origins of hundreds of other samples have not been established, but the findings bolster Tehran’s assertion that such traces were imported on contaminated equipment bought on the black market.
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