Iran stalls in probe of nuke smuggling - diplomats

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Reuters

By Louis Charbonneau

VIENNA - Tehran is not cooperating fully with a probe by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into Iranian officials' meetings with smugglers who had links to Pakistani atom bomb-maker Abdul Qadeer Khan, diplomats said on Monday.

The diplomats said the meetings in 1987 and 1994 were key to help determine whether Iran's programme was originally intended to produce electricity, as Tehran insists, or to make bombs, as Washington maintains.

Iran's failure to cooperate fully with the United Nations on the issue worried the European Union's "big three" powers, the diplomats said. Britain, France and Germany resume nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva on Tuesday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, several Western diplomats familiar with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) investigation said Iran appeared to be withholding information about the two meetings, both of which took place in Dubai.
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