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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/wiran126.xml
UK: Iran "Continued Nuclear Weapons Program"
[Telegraph-UK] Britain's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog contradicted the findings of U.S. intelligence officials who said Iran stopped developing a nuclear weapon in 2003. Simon Smith, the chief British delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, was speaking after diplomats were shown documents which, if accurate, would back claims that Iran has continued to pursue its nuclear weapons program. Asked whether the information indicated Teheran continued such activities beyond 2003, Smith said: "Certainly some of the dates...went beyond 2003." The material suggested there was "detailed work put into the designing of the warhead, studying how that warhead would perform, how it would be detonated and how it would be fitted to a Shahab-3 missile." An IAEA report released Friday described the issue as "a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear program."