U.N. nuclear agency says Iran agrees to address bomb probe issues
Source: Reuters
Reuters) - A long-stalled U.N. probe into suspected atomic bomb research by Iran took a potentially important step forward this week when Tehran agreed to address questions about explosives and other activity that the West says could help it build nuclear weapons.
The undertaking, hammered out in secretive talks in Tehran, could advance an investigation that the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to conduct, and may also help Iran and six world powers to negotiate a broader deal to end a dispute that has raised fears of a new Middle East war. But Western capitals, aware of past failures to get Iran to cooperate with the IAEA, are likely to remain skeptical until it has fully implemented the agreed steps and others to clear up allegations of illicit atomic work.
An IAEA report in 2011 included intelligence information pointing to past tests and experiments in Iran that could be relevant for the development of nuclear weapons, something Iran denies it has ever sought. Tehran says the allegations are false but has offered to help resolve them.
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Iran would also give the U.N. agency explanations "related to studies made and/or papers published in Iran in relation to neutron transport and associated modeling and calculations and their alleged application to compressed materials". Computer calculations can be used to determine the yield of a nuclear explosion.
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