The U.S. has recently shared new intelligence with the International Atomic Energy Agency on key aspects of Iran’s nuclear program that Washington says shows Tehran was directly engaged in trying to make a bomb, Associated press reported on Feb. 14, quoting a diplomat close to in IAEA.
The source added over the past two years, the U.S. already has shared material on a laptop computer reportedly smuggled out of Iran, diplomats said Thursday.
After declassification, U.S. intelligence also was forwarded on two other issues: the ’Green Salt Project’ – a plan the U.S. alleges links diverse components of a nuclear weapons program, including uranium enrichment, high explosives testing and a missile re-entry vehicle – and material in Iran’s possession showing how to mold uranium metal into warhead form.
On Wednesday Thomas Fingar, deputy US director of national intelligence for analysis, told a Congressional hearing that the Islamic republic ’continues to develop’ capabilities that could be swiftly adopted for production of nuclear weapons.