Document describes Iran 'fuel-gas bomb'

WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- Iranian scientists appear to have explored the potential military applications of powerful fuel-gas explosions, it was reported Sunday.

In a jointly authored thesis, three Iranian scientists wrote that "fuel-vapor cloud explosions can cause "severe damages" and that "preventing such events from happening requires a good knowledge."

Raymond Tanter, who heads the Washington-based Iran Policy Committee, told YNetNews Sunday that while the language is "seemingly innocent and only for scientific purposes, the document seems to contain military applications for fuel-gas bombs."

Tanter said such documents were allowed to be published up until recently in Iran in order "to keep its young scientists at home rather than traveling to the West to publish."

Tanter said too much attention is being paid to one aspect of Iranian nuclear development activities. "Based on reports of the National Council of Resistance of Iran -- the main Iranian opposition group -- the regime has made great progress" in other forms of nuclear enrichment, he said.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini said his country would be unaffected by the latest U.N. resolution tightening sanctions against Tehran.