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Iran sought to miniaturize a Pakistani nuclear weapon
design to fit on its ballistic missiles and continued
working to raise the potential power of the weapons at
least until 2010, United Nations inspectors reported
today, citing “credible” intelligence from more than
10 countries. Iran carried out “work on the development of an
indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the
testing of components,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said today in a 15-page restricted document obtained by Bloomberg News. “Some
activities relevant to the development of a nuclear
explosive device continued after 2003” and “some
may still be ongoing.” The document, drawing on eight years of collected
evidence, shows that Iran worked to redesign and
miniaturize a Pakistani nuclear-weapon design by using
a web of front companies and foreign experts,
according to the report and an international official
familiar with the IAEA’s investigation. The IAEA’s conclusion that Iran continued weapons
work until at least until last year clashes with U.S.
intelligence estimates that Tehran’s government
stopped pursuing a nuclear bomb in 2003. Until now,
atomic inspectors had only voiced concerns publicly
about the “possible existence” of weapons work in Iran. The new analysis is likely to heighten international
pressure on Iran. Oil Prices The IAEA report “could increase the risk of a military
attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities” and therefore
“justified a certain risk premium on the price of oil,” Commerzbank wrote today in a research note. Crude oil
for December delivery rose 65 cents, or 0.7 percent, to
$96.17 a barrel at 12:49 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures are up 5.2 percent this year. Iran worked on high explosives design and the
development of a neutron generator, the part of an
atomic bomb that generates a nuclear chain reaction,
according to the senior official. “Iran embarked on a four year program, from around
2006 onwards, on the further validation of the design of
this neutron source,” the IAEA report said, citing one
member state that shared information with inspectors. The IAEA also revealed details of “large-scale high
explosives” experiments conducted near Marivan in
2003. The experiments, which drew on technology
shared by a Russian nuclear scientist, would have
helped Iran calibrate the explosive impact of a bomb’s uranium core, according to the report. Independent Sources “The information comes from a wide variety of
independent sources, including from a number of
member states, from the agency’s own efforts and
from information provided by Iran itself,” the report
said. Iran has told IAEA inspectors that evidence used
against the Persian Gulf country was forged. It is the first time that the IAEA has published a
comprehensive analysis of Iran’s nuclear-weapons
work. Data before 2003 is more comprehensive than
information seen thereafter, according to the senior
official. The Vienna-based agency shared a copy of the
information with Iranian authorities before the report was published, the official said. Iran increased its supply of 20 percent-enriched
uranium to 73.7 kilograms from 70.8 kilograms
reported in September at a pilot nuclear facility in
Natanz about 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of
Tehran, the IAEA said. Iran has produced 4,922
kilograms of uranium enriched to less than 5 percent compared with 4,543 kilograms in the last IAEA report. About 630 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, if
further purified, could yield the 15 kilograms to 22
kilograms of weapons-grade uranium needed by an
expert bomb maker to craft a weapon, according to the
London-based Verification Research, Training and
Information Center, a non-governmental observer to the IAEA that is funded by European governments.
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segera serang !! Seblm negara pnyakitan gila perang ini punya snjata nuklir,
Ada hal yg berbeda knapa israel ada tpi nga diusik iaea , mereka punya nuklir untuk brtahan dr koalisi negara arab jika suatu saat mrk mnyerang serempak. Tapi kalo iran bukan tuk bertahan tujuan utama iran itu ingin berperang dgn israel.
Uda confirm china minta iran terbuka mngenai pengembangan tknologi nuklir, dan tidak mnyetujui adanya satupun negara timur tengah punya snjata nuklir(dgn kata lain cina akan mnutup mata dan memalingkan muka jika iran dserang)
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