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IAEA head: NYT report on Iranian nukes is 'baseless'
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, has no concrete evidence of an ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons program, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, said in Tehran yesterday after announcing Iran had agreed to allow inspectors to visit Iran's recently disclosed second uranium enrichment facility this month.
Answering a question regarding a story published in The New York Times on Saturday that quotes a source saying an internal IAEA report mentions that Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program, ElBaradei said the existence of such a document was "totally baseless".
The West suspects Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but the Islamic republic insists it needs the nuclear technology to generate power to meet domestic demand.