Factbox - Unsolved mystery: Possible military aspects of Iran's atomic past

[WorldNews]

By Shadia Nasralla VIENNA (Reuters) - As nuclear talks with Iran approach a Tuesday deadline, some Western diplomats say questions about the country's atomic past ought to be resolved before sanctions can be lifted. Although Iran has not broken any terms of a 2013 interim deal, the U.N.'s nuclear agency has repeatedly asked Iran to cooperate faster with its investigation into possible military dimensions of the country's atomic program. Below are the key unanswered questions raised by the IAEA, which mostly refer to activities that took place before 2003. BACKGROUND Iran acquired some enrichment knowledge from Pakistani nuclear engineer Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program, who confessed to providing assistance to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Some intelligence also came from a laptop smuggled out of Iran. Iran says all of the alleged evidence is forged and dismisses any charges that it was attempting to develop nuclear weapons.

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