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Iran Admits it Deceived the West Over Nuclear Program

IN THIS ISSUE: Iran admits deceiving West over nuke program, conditions ripe for N. Korean nuclear test?, India test-fires Agni-IV, U.S.: laws of war apply to cyber attacks, new Japan atomic regulator launches, vowing no more disasters, new N. Korea and Iran pact raises international concern.

Published on September 20, 2012
 

Iran Admits it Deceived the West Over Nuclear Program

Stuart Winer | Times of Israel

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Iran deliberately provided false information about its nuclear program to Western investigators and the International Atomic Energy Agency, a senior Iranian official has confirmed.

In an interview published in the London-based daily Al-Hayat on Thursday, Iranian Vice President Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, who is also the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said that misleading facts were used to protect his country's nuclear program and to disguise some of the technical advances it has made.   Full Article



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