APNewsBreak: UN Weapons Experts Going to Tehran The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus - wresting information from Iranian officials about suspicions the country has secretly worked on atomic arms. Iran has flatly refused to discuss such allegations for more than three years, saying they were based on phony intelligence from the U.S. and others seeking to harm the Islamic Republic. But diplomats on Friday told The Associated Press that the weapons experts were part of the U.N team and that Iran had accepted their inclusion after some initial resistance. That suggested that the Islamic Republic was being more conciliatory on the issue of secret weapons work than usual as the International Atomic Energy Agency mission prepares to fly from Vienna to Tehran Saturday. All six diplomats interviewed said Tehran had not committed to discussing the issue. But three of them added that Iranian officials indicated openness to talking about all topics during the IAEA mission that ends early next week - a departure from standard reluctance by Tehran to exclude give-and-take on the arms allegations. None of the diplomats expressed confidence of a breakthrough. But the Iranian stance at least allows the mission to have some home of making a dent into Iran's wall of silence about its alleged clandestine nuclear weapons work. Any progress on the issue would be significant. Tehran has blocked IAEA attempts for more than three years to follow up on U.S. and other intelligence alleging covert Iranian work on nuclear arms, dismissing the charges as baseless and insisting all its nuclear activities were peaceful and under IAEA purview. But even a decision to enter a discussion over the allegations would be a major departure from outright refusal to talk about them. The diplomats said that the IAEA team was looking for permission to talk to key Iranian scientists suspected of weapons work, inspect documents relating to such suspected work and get commitments for future visits to sites linked to such allegations. As most often the case, the IAEA team is headed by Herman Nackaerts, the chief agency official in charge of the Iran file - but the makeup of the rest of the team reflects the importance attached by the agency to the trip. Two diplomats said Friday that nuclear weapons experts Jack Baute of France and Neville Whiting of Britain would accompany Nackaerts. While both fulfill IAEA functions not directly related to nuclear arms research, they were connected to their nation's weapons programs before they came to the agency. One of the diplomats - who is familiar with the thinking that went into setting up the mission - said their inclusion was meant to send a clear signal to the Iranians. He, like the five other diplomats, asked for anonymity in exchange for discussing privileged information,