Iran crisis deepens

The head of the world’s nuclear watchdog declared this week that he could not give Iran’s nuclear programme a clean bill of health, blaming Tehran for frustrating almost three years of inspections by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The damning verdict delivered by Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the agency, set the scene for a diplomatic battle next week in Vienna when the IAEA’s 35-strong board is to take the long-running dispute to the United Nations security council.

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