Papers found in Iran are evidence of plans for nuclear weapon manufacture, says UK
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24/11/2005
Britain claimed for the first time that documents recently found in Iran could only be used for nuclear weapons, and warned of "indications of weaponisation" in Tehran's nuclear programme. At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency devoted to the confrontation between Iran and the west over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the British ambassador to the IAEA, Peter Jenkins, was the first western official to state bluntly that a document recently obtained by UN inspectors in Iran related solely to nuclear weapon plans. The ambassador was joined by German officials who assailed Iran on the issue and added that Tehran had denied the existence of such documents for more than two years.The IAEA chief, Mohamed El Baradei, revealed in a report to diplomats last week that his inspectors had been given a cache of documents in Iran, including one supplied by the international nuclear smuggling racket headed by the Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan, showing how to "cast and machine enriched natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms"