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US says Iran probably has biological warfare weapons

Reuters

Geneva: Iran probably has germ warfare weapons, North Korea may have
developed them and Syria could have carried out research into such
banned
weaponry, the United States told an arms control conference yesterday.

Addressing the opening session of the sixth review conference of the
Convention on Biological Weapons (BWC), US delegation head John C. Rood
said
those countries were of particular concern given their 'support for
terrorism'.

"We believe that Iran probably has an offensive biological weapons
programme
in violation of the BWC," Rood said. "We also believe North Korea has a
biological weapons capability and may have developed, produced and
weaponised for use.

"Finally, we remain seriously concerned that Syria ... has conducted
research and development for an offensive biological weapons
programme," he
said.

IAEA meeting
EU opposes atomic assistance for Tehran

The European Union urged a politically charged meeting of the UN
nuclear
agency yesterday to deny Iran's request for help with a facility that
could
yield plutonium for atom bombs.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation governing board has
repeatedly asked Iran not to pursue the Arak heavy water reactor
project.

Tehran has vowed to complete it and applied for IAEA expertise to
ensure it
meets safety standards. "We cannot support providing technical
assistance to
a heavy water research reactor project that ... would in future produce
significant quantities of plutonium and involve a significant [nuclear]
proliferation risk," Finnish envoy Kirsti Helena Kauppi, speaking on
behalf
of the EU, told the IAEA board.