Iran Admits Foreigners Help Build Nuclear Facility
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Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003
TEHRAN – Iran admits for the first time it received substantial foreign help in building a secret nuclear facility.
The Washington Post said today that a facility south of Tehran was now beginning to enrich uranium, turning it into a key ingredient in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, according to U.N. documents and diplomatic sources, the Post said.
Though Iran has not yet identified the source of the foreign help, evidence collected in Iran by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency implicates Pakistani companies as suppliers of critical technology and parts, officials familiar with a U.N. investigation of Iran's program said.
Pakistan is believed by many proliferation experts to have passed important nuclear secrets to Iran and North Korea. Pakistan has denied providing such assistance.
One of only a handful of countries that remain outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pakistan technically is not bound by many of the international restrictions on the export of nuclear technology.
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