Iran should explain uranium documents: US

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2005

VIENNA (AFP) — The United States said that Iran owes UN inspectors an explanation about its possession of documents that could be related to making an atom bomb.

US ambassador Gregory Schulte told reporters the United States "was very concerned about the large cache of documents uncovered" by the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is investigating Iran's nuclear program.

Iran has handed over a document which describes how to make what could be the explosive core of an atom bomb, the IAEA said Friday in a confidential report filed to its board of governors and obtained by AFP.

The IAEA said Iran had obtained the document when it received an international black market offer in 1987 for nuclear materials and technology.

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