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The text of IAEA Director-General Mohammed ElBaradei’s remarks to the Agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna today, as released to journalists and reported by the Associated Press, also says that “Iran has not provided the agency with all the access to documents and to individuals requested … nor has Iran provided the substantive explanations required to support its statements … Such clarifications are critical to an assessment of the nature of Iran’s past and present nuclear program.” The AP said that ElBaradei also said that the IAEA “understands that Iran may have additional information” that it has withheld from IAEA experts — an allegation also made in his report last week to the agency board and the UN Security Council”.

The AP said that “Since launching its probe into the allegations last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked in vain for substantive explanations for what seem to be draft plans to refit missiles with nuclear warheads; explosives tests that could be used for a nuclear detonation; military and civilian nuclear links and a drawing showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads”.

The full AP report can be read here .

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