IAEA Official in Tehran Searching for Answers

The IAEA sent it's top investigator to Tehran to seek answers to the lingering questions about Iran's nuclear intentions. Specifically US intelligence that Iran has been researching molding urnanium into warheads, explosives and missile technology together.
This plays right into Iran's hands. The name of the game for Iran is stall as much as possible, drive a wedge between the UN security council and deal with ineffectual sanctions. All the while they move closer to building a nuclear bomb. Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog's top investigator arrived in Tehran on Monday to press Iran to explain Western intelligence which suggested it covertly studied how to design nuclear bombs.

Iran's official IRNA news agency said Olli Heinonen would meet Javad Vaeedi, deputy head of the Islamic Republic's Supreme National Security Council, during his two-day visit.

It quoted an unnamed Iranian official as saying his visit was intended to "advance cooperation" between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. body trying to clear up suspicions about Iran's disputed nuclear ambitions.

The talks will get under way in the afternoon, the ISNA news agency said.

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Heinonen raised a diplomatic stir in February with a presentation that indicated links in Iran between projects to process uranium, to test explosives and to modify a missile cone in a way suitable for a nuclear warhead.

Iran has dismissed the intelligence as baseless, forged or irrelevant. But the IAEA wants substantive explanations to enable it to wind up a long inquiry into Iran's secretive quest for nuclear power.

IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei has said the world "needs to make sure Iran did not have a weapons program".

The Iranian official quoted by IRNA said Tehran had presented its "evaluation" of the issue to the U.N. agency but did not rule out discussion of the subject with Heinonen.

"Since there are differences between Iran and the agency (over the Western intelligence) the meeting ... will deal with finding a solution to this problem," ISNA quoted an official from Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation as saying.