Report: Iran out to smuggle ore
Uranium deal with Kazakhs said to be near
Posted: December 30, 2009 at 5:51 a.m.
Demonstrators gather Tuesday outside the Iranian Embassy in London in support of anti-government activists in Iran. Security forces intensified their crackdown against the opposition with a wave of new arrests Tuesday.
Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Diplomats said the assessment was heightening international concern about Tehran’s nuclear activities.
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