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Thursday, November 26, 2015
UN can’t be certain Iran nuclear program peaceful
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran is reducing its nuclear activities under a deal with six world powers, but a senior UN official says he cannot guarantee that everything it is doing is peaceful.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano speaks Thursday to the IAEA’s 35-nation board.
Amano says he is “not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” and thus cannot conclude that “all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”
His comments reflect IAEA constraints on monitoring Iran. But Amano says Tehran will soon enact an agreement giving his agency greater inspection powers
Iran says it does not want nuclear arms but has committed to nuclear program cuts under a deal, in return for the removal of crippling economic sanctions.
— AP
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