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\nIntelligence obtained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reveals that Iran has been modifying its Shihab-3 ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n
\nIntelligence obtained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reveals that Iran has been modifying its Shihab-3 ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n
IAEA agents presented the intelligence on Tuesday after Iran rejected their requests to formally examine its ballistic missile program alongside an ongoing investigation into the intents of its nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Senior IAEA officials called the information “very credible” and demanded that Iran provide “substantive responses.”<\/p>\n
Tehran rejected the intelligence as “forged.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a lunatic, but warned against taking his threats against Israel too lightly.<\/p>\n
Speaking to a Jewish organization in Paris, Berlusconi said that the world “must pay the utmost attention to the lunacy of someone who says…that Israel must be wiped off the map.”<\/p>\n
A senior US political figure said that while Washington is keeping a close eye on Ahmadinejad, there is now a prevailing assumption that international diplomatic efforts are succeeding in putting pressure on Iran, and that military intervention will not be necessary to halt the Islamic Republic’s quest for nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n