Iranian bomb material found

'Technical issues' has now become a code word for "oops, you weren't supposed to see that."

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine technical issue," the country's official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was responding to a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog that said it had found radioactive traces at an Iranian nuclear site. The uranium found had been enriched to a level that is slightly closer to the threshold needed for nuclear weapons than Iran's previous highest-known enrichment grade.

The IAEA said in the confidential report obtained Friday by The Associated Press that it was asking Tehran for a full explanation about the traces. But the report was careful to avoid any suggestion that Iran was intentionally increasing the level of its uranium enrichment.
Tehran said the find was a technical glitch, according to the report. Analysts and diplomats said Iran's version sounded plausible.

(AP story. The reporter is in the running for most credulous of the year, if not the decade.)

One word for that, and it begins with "bull . . ."

There's no reason to believe the lies any more - not that there ever was.