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Article: Diplomats: Iran seeks to buy banned carbon fiber
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- March 12, 2009
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Two diplomats say Iran's national car company has made plans to purchase large quantities of carbon fiber, which is under U.N embargo because it could be used in the country's nuclear program. The automaker's chief executive denied it.
The two diplomats independently told The Associated Press that their countries' intelligence agencies had gathered information that Iran Khodro executives were planning international orders for carbon fiber.
Some would be used for fuel tanks in a new car that runs partly on compressed natural gas, the diplomats said.
But carbon fiber is also a component of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Iran is enriching uranium that it ...