It was also involved in developing launching systems, missile programs, preparing uranium, purchasing it on the black market, smuggling it back into Iraq.
Like Libya, which owned up to a once-secret weapons programme, Iran and North Korea got their start in the uranium-enrichment business from the nuclear black market run by Pakistan's disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan.
There was even a suggestion that there is technology that could, in effect, prevent the Iranians from gaining control of all of it, even if it were built in Iran--a kind of black box that would prevent their access to the advanced centrifuges that make enriched uranium.