Apparently Iran Answered Nuclear Bomb Allegations

Well this is news to the IAEA, and everyone else. Reuters

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it had given U.N. investigators more than 200 pages of answers to questions about intelligence reports that it secretly researched how to make atom bombs and declared "the matter is over".

But Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tehran would heed any requests for clarification after the IAEA chief demanded "full disclosure", a call broadly endorsed by a 35-nation agency Board of Governors meeting this week.

"We gave more than 200 pages of explanations and documents to the agency on May 23. We left no question unanswered. We have done our job. This matter is over," Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said as the four-day meeting ended.

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A May 26 IAEA report said Iran seemed to be withholding information needed to explain indications that it linked programs to process uranium, test high explosives and modify a missile cone in a way suitable for a nuclear warhead.

Soltanieh heaped derision on the documentation, much of which came from a laptop spirited out of Iran by a defector. He said the papers were not stamped "classified" and lacked the official letterhead of Tehran's defense ministry.

"Can you imagine any country engaging in military nuclear activities without classifying the (documentation) as confidential or top secret?" he said.

He reaffirmed Iran's vow never to abandon its right to atomic energy for development but also pledged the program would remain under IAEA monitoring, which he said discredited suspicions that Iran sought nuclear firepower.

Gregory Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the IAEA, held out little hope of a breakthrough with Iran this year.