Iran worked on N-warhead for Shahab-3 missile: IAEA

Iran appears to have worked on designing an atomic bomb and how to arm a Shahab-3 medium-range missile with an atomic warhead, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report as western nations rounded angrily on Iran.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report detailed evidence showing concerted, covert efforts to acquire the capability to make atomic bombs and conducting secret research. These included, computer modelling of a nuclear warhead, testing explosives in a large metal chamber at the Parchin military base near Teheran and making nuclear warheads fit inside Shahab 3 missiles.

It voiced ‘particular concern’ about the information that Iran had built a large explosives vessel at the Parchin military complex to conduct hydrodynamic experiments, which are “strong indicators of possible weapon development.”

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