U.N. nuclear watchdog creates task force to monitor defiant Iran
Source: Los Angeles Times
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog has created a task force to better analyze Iran's suspected efforts to develop nuclear weapons, the agency confirmed Wednesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency took the rare step of forming a country-specific team of experts after technical talks between the U.N. agency and Tehran's nuclear point man last week failed to secure access for IAEA inspectors. A high-level diplomatic forum involving officials of the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany also collapsed earlier this year after three fruitless meetings with Iranian counterparts.
Iran's chief negotiator on nuclear matters, meanwhile, told leaders at a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran on Wednesday that his country won't stop enriching uranium, as demanded by the diplomatic group.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Tehran for the summit, asked the Iranian leadership to take "concrete steps" to address concerns that its nuclear program has taken on a military dimension, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said at a briefing at New York headquarters.
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