‘No information shows Iran has active plan to build nuclear weapons’

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has said that the nuclear watchdog does not have information showing Iran is actively trying to build nuclear weapons, reports Aljazeera.

“We did not find in Iran elements to indicate that there is an active, systematic plan to build a nucear weapon,” Grossi told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview. “We have not seen elements to allow us as inspectors to affirm that there was a nuclear weapon that was being manufactured or produced somewhere in Iran.”

Grossi’s comments come a week after the agency’s Board of Governors declared Iran non-compliant with its commitment to international nuclear safeguards.

It based this assessment on what it called Iran’s “many failures” to provide “full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities”. It singled out Iran’s failure to credibly explain uranium traces detected at its undeclared sites._Agencies.