Report: Iran, Syria and North Korea interested in obtaining classified technology

In related news, the annual report of the Czech secret service for 2008 says that individuals and companies from Iran, Syria and North Korea were interested in obtaining chemicals, machinery and technologies that could be used in producing weapons of mass destruction and their carriers. The Czech intelligence confirmed “a steady interest” by Iran in purchasing Czech machinery, and found out that in 2007, a Czech firm collaborated with an Iranian company that had been sanctioned for taking part in Iran’s nuclear programme.