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IAEA presses Iran on weapons claims

AFP, Tehran
A top UN nuclear official was holding a second day of closed-door talks in Tehran yesterday seeking answers from Iran over claims it has studied how to design nuclear weapons.
Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) deputy director general, went into talks with Iranian officials mid-momingTuesday after a first round on Monday, the state broadcaster reported.
No information has filtered out on the contents of the discussions so far and not even photographs or video footage of the meetings have been released.
Heinonen's two-day visit is aimed at pressing Iran over claims it has carried out so-called "weaponisation studies", the Vienna-based watchdoghas said.
The deputy head of Iran’s atomic energy organisation Mohammad
Saeedi and its ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh led the Iranian delegation at Tuesday's talks as they had on Monday, the student ISNA news agency reported.
Official media reports before the talks had said that deputy national security chief Javad Vaeedi would lead the Iranian delegation but, as on the previous day, he was not present onTuesday.
No reason was given for Vaeedi's absence.
In a sign of the sensitivity of the talks, Iran's leading hardline daily Kayhan launched a withering personal onslaught against Heinonen and his intentions on Monday.
"This trip is to complete a joint Israeli-US trick to provide phoney proof on Iran's nuclear activities," said an editorial signed by chief editor Hossein Shariatmadari, who is appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In a closed-door briefing to diplomats at IAEA headquarters in
Vienna on February 25, Heinonen presented detailed evidence suggesting that Iran could have been studying how to use its nuclear technology to make a warhead.
Some of the information is reported to have come from IAEA member states, including data from a laptop computer smuggled out of Tehran in an operation by Western intelligence i n 2004.
Western diplomats present at the meeting subsequently said the new evidence of alleged "weaponisation studies" was troubling.
Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and aimed solely at generating energy, at the time furiously denounced the claims as fake.
Iran's refusal to suspend sensitive uranium enrichment operations — which the West fears could be used to make a nuclear weapon -- has already led to three sets of UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran.