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Iran’s nuclear program continuing

Iran is continuing nuclear activity, says United Nations watchdog• Country ‘fails to co-operate with energy inspectors’• West may target foreign petroleum supplies
Guardian. uk by Julian Borger 28 August 09

The UN’s nuclear watchdog reported today that Iran was continuing its uranium enrichment programme in defiance of UN security council resolutions, setting the stage for possible oil and gas sanctions by the west.

In a report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also repeated its regular complaint that Iran was not co-operating with its inspectors over unanswered questions about evidence of efforts to militarise the programme and produce a warhead.

In his last report on Iran before leaving his post, the IAEA director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said the evidence pointing at military aspects of Iran’s programme “appears to have been derived from multiple sources over different periods of time, appears to be generally consistent, and is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed that it needs to be addressed by Iran with a view to removing the doubts which naturally arise about the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.”………

……….The IAEA report comes at a critical time, just over three weeks before a UN summit meeting, which has become a de facto deadline for Iran to respond to an international package of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment

Iran is continuing nuclear activity, says United Nations watchdog | World news | The Guardian

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