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Old 02-22-2008, 09:24 AM
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VIENNA, Austria - Iran has rejected documents that link it to missile and explosives experiments and other work connected to a possible nuclear weapons program, calling the information false and irrelevant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.

As expected, an International Atomic Agency report also confirmed that Iran continued to enrich uranium despite two sets of Security Council sanctions to punish it for defying council demands to freeze the program that can generate both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of warheads.

An 11-page report obtained by The Associated Press suggested all other major issues that had raised past suspicions about Iran's claims to working only on a peaceful nuclear program had either been fully resolved or were "no longer outstanding at this stage."

But it said Tehran had rejected as irrelevant documentation provided by the agency that purportedly shows it working on tests of missile trajectories, high explosives testing, and research on a missile re-entry vehicle — activities that would be most likely be part of weapons development. Questions also remained on diagrams in Iran's possession showing how to mold uranium metal into warhead shape.

Iran's dismissal was sure to found unacceptable by the United States, which diplomats say provided most of the material that led to in recent month to an accelerated IAEA investigation of Iran's purported weapons program activities.

"We've heard about the Iranians cooperating in the past, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. "Yet many many questions remain."

Ahead of the confidential report's release to the 35-nation IAEA board and the U.N. Security Council, U.S. officials had repeatedly insisted that the IAEA probe would be incomplete unless Iran acknowledged trying to make nuclear arms in the past. That stance is shared by Canada, Japan, Australia and U.S. allies in Europe.

A senior IAEA official, who demanded anonymity as a condition of discussing the report, said that — if the material provided by the U.S. and other agency members on the alleged activities were genuine — most of the work was "most likely for nuclear weapons."

But he said the agency was not reaching any conclusion until the Iranians went beyond rejection of the purported evidence and concretely addressed the issues it raised.
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