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Friday, Nov. 21, Tehran denied the International Atomic Energy Agency’s findings that it had enriched enough uranium to make its first nuclear bomb, while Damascus said the watchdog’s report that the Syrian nuclear site bombed by Israel had the features of a reactor proved nothing.Inspections also found traces of man-made uranium at the demolished Syrian site.Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA said his government could not have stockpiled 630 kg of low-enriched uranium, enough to upgrade into a nuclear weapon, as claimed in the IAEA report, without ejecting UN inspectors and leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).UN officials and Western diplomats replied that the IAEA cannot rule out Iran enriching at another, secret location since Tehran bars snap IAEA inspections anywhere beyond its few declared facilities.Syria’s nuclear energy chief Ibrahim Othman said the international investigation should be closed. Syria, he said, had stood by its agreement for one visit to the al-Kibar site last June and “we will not allow another visit.As in the days of Noah...
