Khan cites help given to Iran

Washington Post : A. Q. Khan, the creator of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program who provided clandestine nuclear technology to Iran and North Korea, boasted in a recent television interview that he and other senior Pakistani officials—who were eager to see Iran develop nuclear weapons—years ago guided that country to a proven network of suppliers and helped advance its covert efforts.Khan told a television interviewer in Karachi, Pakistan, that if Iran succeeds in “acquiring nuclear technology, we will be a strong bloc in the region to counter international pressure. Iran’s nuclear capability will neutralize Israel’s power."Although Khan has previously claimed nationalist and religious justifications for helping to spread sensitive technology, several experts said his latest statement was an unusually direct claim of broad, official Pakistani support for an Iranian nuclear weapon.