Yet more evidence emerges of Iranian deception on nukes as UN says Tehran already has know-how to produce nuclear weapons

The urgency of the Iranian nuclear situation has been taken up another notch this weekend by revelations that the UN’s top nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), now believes that the Islamist regime has “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” nuclear weapon.

The revelations came to light in a report on Saturday in the New York Times and provide further evidence that Tehran has been engaged in a consistent policy of public decpetion over its plans to acquire nuclear weapons. According to the paper:

“The atomic agency’s report also presents evidence that beyond improving upon bomb-making information gathered from rogue nuclear experts around the world, Iran has done extensive research and testing on how to fashion the components of a weapon. It does not say how far that work has progressed.”

The report appears to contradict a controversial analysis put out by US intelligence services in 2007 which argued that Iran had put its nuclear weapons programme on ice as far back as 2003.

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