Iran’s quest to possess nuclear technology
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Iran said it has made advances in nuclear technology, citing new uranium enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel.
March 8, 2012 Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh briefs the media during a board of governors meeting in Vienna. Six world powers demanded that Iran fulfil a promise to let international inspectors visit a military installation where the U.N. nuclear watchdog believes that explosives tests geared to developing atomic bombs may have taken place. Herwig Prammer/Reuters
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Intelligence obtained by U.N. officials also reinforces concerns that Iran continued weapons-related research after 2003, when U.S. officials say Tehran halted such work.
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