U.S. Says Iran Still Hiding Nuclear Weapons Program

(Reuters) John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for arms control and international security, accused Iran on Thursday of concealing a nuclear weapons program. "We are not going to reduce the pressure on Iran," Bolton said. "We think the pressure they've been under has been critical to their revealing the pieces about their nuclear program that they already have revealed." But "we think the Iranians are still trying to conceal a clandestine weapons program." Bolton was in Lisbon for a two-day meeting of 14 countries that are part of the Proliferation Security Initiative.


2004-03-05 00:00:00

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