Iran vindicated, says UN

Iran has been “somewhat vindicated” by a new US intelligence review that concludes the nation stopped developing a nuclear weapons programme in 2003, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said today.

International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohamed ElBaradei called the report a “sigh of relief” because its conclusions correlate with the agency’s own findings.

“Iran has been somewhat vindicated in saying they have not been working on a weapons programme, at least for the past few years,” Mr ElBaradei told reporters in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia.