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Article: Report: Iran closing in on nuclear bomb.
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- United Press International
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- August 4, 2003
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TEHRAN, Aug 04, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday it has evidence Iran is close to possessing a nuclear bomb.
The newspaper said a three-month investigation drawing on previously secret reports, international officials, independent experts, Iranian exiles and intelligence sources in Europe and the Middle East, uncovered strong evidence that Iran's commercial program masks a plan to become the world's next nuclear power.
The country has been engaged in a pattern of clandestine activity that has concealed weapons work from international inspectors, the ...