Published reports, including reporting by FOX News, have long noted that Iranian officials met with Khan associates in the late 1980s.
Simon Henderson, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy described his meeting with Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in which, “he told me of how on one occasion in the 1980s a senior Iranian flew to Pakistan with the hope of picking up three nuclear bombs from the Pakistani military.”
At the time, Henderson said, a senior Pakistani officer persuaded the Iranian envoy there had been a “misunderstanding.”
Henderson said the Iranian involved, Ali Shamkani, is now a close adviser to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In the July 27 issue of “The New Yorker,” journalist Steve Coll wrote that Khan maintained a secret office in Dubai above a children’s store called Mummy & Me.  There in 1987, for approximately $10 million, Coll wrote that “the Iranians received a one-page document that included the offer of a disassembled centrifuge, along with diagrams of the machine.”