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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 10:23 AM
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I saw this in yesterday's paper
and wondered just how ** would spin it to get us into Iran, I know he'll just ignore it and continue to spew that Iran is developing their nuclear WMD program: http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050820/ts_afp/irannucleariaea_050820200934

VIENNA (AFP) - The UN nuclear watchdog is to meet here next week with Pakistani officials as part of its efforts to determine if Iran was using smuggled Pakistani equipment to make enriched uranium that could be used for atom bombs, diplomats said.

Pakistan had in May sent centrifuge parts to the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency at its headquarters in Vienna to enable the IAEA to compare microscopic traces of uranium on them with that found on equipment in Iran believed to have been smuggled in from Pakistan.

The IAEA has concluded that "the highly enriched uranium appears to emanate from Pakistan," from the imported equipment and not from Iranian enrichment work, a Western diplomat close to the IAEA told AFP.

Enriched uranium, made by passing a uranium gas through a series, or cascade, of centrifuge machines, can be fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors or, in highly refined form, the raw material for atom bombs.

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