US: Iranian warhead blueprint ‘alarming’
A ranking International Atomic Energy Agency official called Teheran’s possession of a drawing showing how to make part of an atomic warhead “alarming” Thursday and said the onus is on Iran to prove it had not tried to develop nuclear arms, said diplomats attending a closed briefing.
The US said the evidence detailed by IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen increased concerns that Teheran had tried to make such weapons. “Today’s briefing showed … strong reasons to suspect that Iran was working covertly and deceitfully at least until recently to build a bomb,” Gregory L. Schulte, the chief US delegate to the agency, told reporters.