Montreal Gazette

UN cites progress in Iran arms probe

- GEORGE JAHN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — A senior UN official announced progress Friday in long-stalled efforts to resume a probe of suspicions that Iran may have worked to develop nuclear arms, saying the investigat­ion could be re- started by early next year.

Herman Nackaerts of the Internatio­nal Atomic Energy Agency spoke of headway after returning from talks with Iranian officials in Tehran, saying his team was “able to make progress” and the IAEA expects to “start implementi­ng ”an agreement on the probe shortly after new talks in Tehran Jan. 16.

He acknowledg­ed that a key IAEA request — a visit to a site linked to suspected nuclear weapons research — was again denied. In comments to state TV, Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh called the talks “constructi­ve.”

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