Recommend this article  BILBAO (Reuters) - A company from
Spain's Basque country smuggled machinery to Iran for likely use
in the country's nuclear program through an elaborate scheme
involving a shell company in Turkey, Spanish tax authorities
said on Monday.  Spain's tax agency said the company had managed
to send over seven machines designed to make parts for turbines
used in energy plants, in a scheme that violated United Nations
security council sanctions against Iran.  A source close to the
operation named the company involved as ONA Electroerosion.  The
machines, sold for nearly 1 million euros ($1.30 million), were
destined for use in Iran's nuclear development program,
according to the agency's investigations to date.  The U.N., the
United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions on
Iran for refusing to halt nuclear enrichment, which Western
powers fear is part of a plan to amass the capability to produce
nuclear weapons.  Iran argues its atomic work is for use in
medicine and generating