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IAEA Chief Willing to Share Data With Iran on Weapons Claims

Al-Monitor's Barbara Slavin reports that the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, says his organization will share sensitive data with Iran “when appropriate," in a possible new bid to gain Iranian cooperation on allegations that it had a nuclear-weapons program.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano reacts as he attends a news conference during a board of governors meeting at the UN headquarters in Vienna November 29, 2012. The U.N. nuclear agency made no progress in a year-long push to find out if Iran worked on developing an atomic bomb, its chief said on Thursday, calling for urgent efforts to end Tehran's standoff with the West. Amano said he would not give up seeking to end what Western diplomats describe as Iranian stonewalli

In a possible new bid to gain Iranian cooperation on allegations that it had a nuclear weapons program, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, says his organization will share sensitive data with Iran “when appropriate.”

Iran for years has complained that it has not seen the documents and other materials to back up IAEA and Western intelligence claims that it carried out a series of nuclear weapons-related studies in the late 1990s. According to a 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate, Iran halted a structured weapons program in 2003 but elements of the work may have continued.

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