Iran Denies Smuggling Uranium from Monitored Site

Reuters:

Iran denied Wednesday a report that it may have secretly moved some sensitive nuclear material from a site being monitored by the U.N.'s atomic watchdog.

Diplomats told Reuters Tuesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was taking an inventory of processed uranium at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility in central Iran amid concerns some may have been moved.

The diplomats said one intelligence agency had accused Iran of spiriting an unspecified amount of processed uranium, which could be processed further and enriched for weapons purposes, out of Isfahan to an unknown location. ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi denied Iran had smuggled any uranium out of Isfahan.