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Iran trying to assemble
Nuclear missile: report
Syria, Pakistan also buying rocket technology
Ian Cobain and Ian Traynor also had been buying technology and chemicals needed to develop rocket programmes and to enrich uranium. Concern in the West But it is the detailed assessment of Iran's nuclear purchasing programme that will most alarm western leaders, who have long refused to believe Teheran's insistence that it is not interested in developing nuclear weapons and is trying only to develop nuclear power for electricity. Governments in the west and elsewhere have also been dismayed by recent pronouncements from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said Holocaust denial is a "scientific debate" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map." The leak of the intelligence report may signal a growing frustration at Iran's refusal to bow to western demands that it abandon its programme to produce fuel for a Asian-built nuclear reactor due to come on stream this year. The assessment declares that Iran has developed an intensive web of front companies, official bodies, academic institutes and middlemen did The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country's weapons programmes. Scientists in Teheran are also shopping for parts for a new ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe, with "import requests and acquisitions registered almost daily," the report seen by the Guardian concludes. The warning came as Iran raised the stakes in its dispute with the United States and the European Union on Tuesday by notifying the International Atomic Energy Authority that it intends to resume nuclear fuel research next week. The S5-page intelligence assessment, dated July f,2005, draws upon material gathered by British, French, German and Belgian agencies and has been used to brief European government Ministers and to warn leading industrialists of he need for vigilance when exporting? equipment properties to so-called rogue states. It concludes that Syria and Pakistan have incited to obtaining - in Western Europe and the former Soviet Union - the expertise, training, and equipment for nuclear programmes, missile development, and biological and chemical weapons arsenals. The document lists scores of Iranian companies and institutions involved in the arms race. It also details Teheran's growing determination to perfect a ballistic missile capable of delivering warheads far beyond its borders. It notes that Iran harbors ambitions of developing a space programme, but is currently concentrating on upgrading and extending the range of its Shahabad-S missile, which has a range of 750 miles - capable of reaching Israel. Iranian scientists are said to be building wind tunnels to assist in missile design, developing navigation technology, and acquiring metering and calibration technology, motion simulators and x-ray machines designed to examine rocket parts. The next generation of the Shahabad ('shooting star" in Persian) should be capable of reaching Austria and Italy

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