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Article: Diplomats: IAEA tests on enriched uranium traces found inside Iran vindicate Tehran in at least one instance
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- August 11, 2004
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GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-11-2004
Dateline: VIENNA, Austria
New findings on Iran by the U.N. atomic agency, revealed by diplomats, appear to strengthen Tehran's claim it has not enriched uranium domestically and weaken U.S. arguments that it is hiding a nuclear weapons program.
The diplomats, who are familiar with Iran's nuclear dossier, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency has established that at least some enriched particles found in Iran originated in Pakistan.
The origin of hundreds of other samples has not been established. Still, the finding bolsters Tehran's assertion that all such traces were inadvertently ...