Hand over nuclear weapons and know-how, Iran tells Britain

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=EN5OULAPVBJCDQFIQMFCM5WAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2004/08/11/wiran11.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/11/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=13287

Iran has issued an extraordinary list of demands to Britain and other European countries, telling them to provide advanced nuclear technology, conventional weapons and a security guarantee against nuclear attack by Israel.

Teheran's request, said by British officials to have "gone down very badly", sharply raises the stakes in the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme, which Britain and America believe is aimed at making an atomic bomb.

Iran's move came during crisis talks in Paris this month with senior diplomats from Britain, France and Germany.

The "EU-3" were trying to convince Iranian officials to honour an earlier deal to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment programme, which is ostensibly designed to make fuel for nuclear power stations but could also be used to make fissile material for nuclear bombs.

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1. A misleading headline from the Telegraph

Nowhere in the article is there a demand for nuclear weapons; just the 'know-how', and conventional weapons (and I think they are willing to pay for it - so 'hand over' is misleading too).

A slightly less extreme take on the story from AP:
http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=92060