[Telegraph-UK] David Blair - Iran tried to obtain uranium from Somalia in return for supplying weapons to the country's Islamist movement, the UN said. The report details three illegal weapons shipments from Teheran, and Iran promised further weapons, but only in return for uranium, presumably for use in Teheran's nuclear program. The Somali Islamists, who captured Mogadishu from a coalition of secular warlords in June, are now believed to control the area where uranium is present.
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