How many other countries have helped Iran?

A.Q. Khan of Pakistan started a whole network to supply machines/tools for nuclear weapons. How much of that network is still being used by Iran?

The head of the Belgian federal security service (VS) was forced to resign after it emerged that his force oversaw sales of machines related to nuclear weapons production to Iran.

Belgian press reported on Tuesday that Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael jointly announced that VS chief Koen Dassen had submitted his letter of resignation.

The resignation came after talks between Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and his deputy prime ministers Onkelinx and Dewael, the daily 'De Standaard' reported on Tuesday.

A report presented by Committee I to the Belgian Senate on Tuesday noted that in November 2004 an Isostatic Press machine was supplied by the Temse-based firm Epsi to Iran.

The export breached international regulations which forbid the sale of nuclear-related goods to Iran.

The sale of the Isostatic Press was revealed to the public domain in a conference by the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran in London on January 20.

NCRI official Dowlat Nowrouzi told the news conference that Iran was carrying out illegal nuclear weapons activities at a top-secret site west of Tehran.

Tehran has successfully procured two types of equipment, the Hot Isostatic Press and the Hot Press, to shape enriched uranium as part of nuclear weapons production at the “Materials and Energy Research Centre” (Pazhuheshgah-e Mavad va Enerzhi), she said.

Both machines are banned items, she added.