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To: stockman_scott who wrote (119303)	11/12/2003 1:14:50 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

Tehran accused of 18-year cover-up Secret report says robust inspections of Iran's nuclear programme are needed to dispel fears of weapons of mass destruction Ian Traynor in Zagreb Wednesday November 12, 2003 The Guardian Iran has systematically covered up its nuclear programme for the past two decades and needs "particularly robust" international inspections to dissolve fears it is developing weapons of mass destruction, the UN's atomic energy agency has found. In a confidential 30-page report on the Iranian nuclear project, delivered to diplomats in Vienna on Monday night and obtained by the Guardian, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN's international atomic energy agency (IAEA), revealed that Iran has extracted weapons-grade plutonium in experiments with uranium, and until recently was building a secret laser uranium enrichment facility, as well as a huge centrifuge enrichment complex. Dr ElBaradei in effect declared Iran in breach of its international nuclear treaty obligations, a claim that requires the IAEA to report Iran to the UN security council. But the politics and the diplomacy of the crisis mean that such a referral and the accompanying risk of punitive sanctions being decreed is unlikely to happen yet. The Vienna-based agency and the Europeans want more time to investigate the highly sophisticated and extensive projects under way in Iran. guardian.co.uk