VIENNA (Reuters) - A prominent American nuclear security expert on Monday challenged as misleading a report of new U.S. intelligence purportedly suggesting Iran was planning to build a nuclear warhead.
Iran, which hid a uranium enrichment programme from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for 18 years until 2003, denies Western accusations it is trying to build nuclear arms under cover of an atomic power project, saying it only seeks to make electricity.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that senior U.S. intelligence officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in July about the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer.
It quoted officials who attended the meeting as saying the laptop contained more than 1,000 pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of experiments indicating a long effort to design a nuclear warhead. IAEA sources told Reuters the evidence presented was not clear-cut.
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