Also note the article on Zimbabwe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8348831/UN-nuclear-watchdog-says-Iran-developing-nuclear-weapons.html
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran developing nuclear weapons
The UN nuclear watchdog has said it new information that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon capable of being carried by its ballistic missiles.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz Photo: AP
8:19PM GMT 25 Feb 2011
In a classified report the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said "new information" it had received had prompted "further concern" about Iran's nuclear programme.
"Iran is not engaging with the agency in substance on issues concerning the allegation that Iran is developing a nuclear payload for its missile programme."
Tehran insists its atomic programme is entirely peaceful.
But Western countries believe it is a guise to a covert nuclear weapons programme and have compiled evidence that it was involved in weaponisation studies – work which included uranium conversion, high explosives testing and the adaptation of a ballistic missile cone to carry a nuclear warhead – at least until 2003.
Iran has dismissed the evidence as "fabricated" and refused to discuss the so-called "alleged studies" any further.
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The report comes amid mounting concerns about a possible nuclear arms race in the Middle East, fuelled by Syria's rejection on an IAEA request to inspect a possible nuclear facility.
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