Nuclear denial

Tehran

Iran this week denied a report that it had created detailed plans for a nuclear warhead. According to The New York Times, U.S. officials months ago showed the plans, which they reportedly found in a stolen Iranian laptop computer, to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran said the U.S. was simply putting out propaganda ahead of next week’s IAEA board meeting, which will decide whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for sanctions because of its nuclear program. “The baseless claim made us laugh,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi. “We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.” One U.S. nuclear expert, former arms inspector David Albright, said the plans appear to be for a missile that could deliver such a warhead, not for the nuclear device itself.

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