(Guardian-UK) Peter Beaumont - Nuclear engineer Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was identified by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2011 as a central figure in suspected Iranian work to develop technology and skills needed for atomic bombs, and suggested he may at that time still have had a role in such activity. At the time, the IAEA judged the allegations of work on nuclear weapons "to be, overall, credible." Documents pointed to research into how to weaponize warheads and the explosives technology required to detonate a nuclear bomb.
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