UN nuclear agency finds no traces of Iran nuclear arms program
A day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released what he said was a "half ton" of seized documents proving that Iran has lied about its nuclear intentions, the documents issued by the U.N. nuclear agency did not provide any explicit evidence that Iran has violated its 2015 nuclear deal with the international community.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 01 May 2018
- Modified Date: 03:44 | 01 May 2018
The U.N. nuclear agency says it believes that Iran had a "coordinated" nuclear weapons program in place before 2003, but found "no credible indications" of such work after 2009.
The agency issued its assessment on Tuesday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released what he said was a "half ton" of seized documents proving that Iran has lied about its nuclear intentions.
The documents focused on Iranian activities before 2003 and did not provide any explicit evidence that Iran has violated its 2015 nuclear deal with the international community.
Tuesday's IAEA assessment, which repeated an earlier 2015 report, did not directly mention Netanyahu's claims.
But it noted that in its 2015 report, its board of governors "declared that its consideration of this issue was closed."