The chief of the United Nations nuclear body Friday said that Tehran had shopped for nuclear components on the international black market and called on Iran to be more "proactive" and "transparent."
In an interview with the BBC, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei also said that Iran's nuclear program had been going on far longer than the agency had realized.
Although he was not certain of the states that made the equipment Iran had purchased on the black market, ElBaradei said he had a "pretty good idea" which ones they were. "It could be one country, it could be more than one country," ElBaradei stated. "They (Iranian officials) told us they have got a lot of that stuff from the black market. It is through intermediaries. It is not directly from the country." (Albawaba.com)
© 2003 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
