Iraq’s top security official on Sunday ridiculed western governments’ request for a document said to show a weapons design obtained from the illegal nuclear procurement network of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, and suggested Tehran would not hand it over to UN inspectors.

“If you can find anyone in the world who can make a bomb with one and a half pages, we will cover their whole body with gold,” Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told the FT.