Safavi also provided a list of eight businesses that he described as "front companies" set up by the Atomic Energy Organization, the branch of the Iranian government that oversees nuclear activities -- including weapons research.
Milhollin, the arms control expert, said it would make sense for Iran to build satellite nuclear facilities, "because of the risk that Israel or somebody else could bomb the sites that are known."
But he said it might be difficult for the Bush administration to prove that the Iranian program violates the nuclear nonproliferation pact.
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