India, Iran Energy Talks Aid Tehran Nuclear Aims

Cooperation between India, Iran and other nations about developing Tehran's gas and oil assets would help the Islamic nation

Cooperation would help the Islamic nation in its nuclear weapons programme, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Thursday.

"There have been conversations...and if that is allowed to go forward, in our judgement, this will contribute to development of nuclear weapons," he told reporters in Mumbai at the end of a three-day visit to India.