New uranium traces found in Iran. Wow! Imagine that! Quelle surprise!

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors have found traces of near bomb-grade enriched uranium on nuclear equipment in Iran, diplomats said on Friday, as the EU prepared a declaration that will insist Tehran shelve all enrichment work.


Iran signaled undiminished confidence in a lack of big power resolve against its atomic work with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling Western pressure "psychological propaganda" and the U.S.-mooted, last-resort option of war "unlikely."

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The new discovery by U.N. inspectors of high-enriched uranium traces in Iran was made on equipment from a former research site razed by Iran in 2004 before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could examine it, diplomats said.

A diplomat in Vienna, where the IAEA is based, confirmed the new finding from the former Lavizan-Shian site but cautioned: "It's no smoking gun. There could be many explanations. But it increases pressure on Iran to come clean about Lavizan."