The head of a U.N. watchdog group played down concern over Iran’s nuclear program. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tuesday that while U.N. inspectors had only just picked up on long-undeclared Iranian nuclear plans, there was little concrete reason to believe that the Islamic republic is close to attaining nuclear weapons capability, as Israel and the United States maintain. “We haven’t seen a smoking gun in Iran. We haven’t seen an underground production enrichment facility. We haven’t seen enough materials in Iran, other than gram quantities, to put into a weapon,” ElBaradei told The Jerusalem Post. “We try to work on the basis of facts.”
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