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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/international/middleeast/14TEHR.html
Iran Freezes Nuclear Inspections After UN Censure
(New York Times) Iran indefinitely suspended international inspections of its nuclear facilities on Saturday in an angry response to a resolution by the UN atomic agency that criticized its activities. The delay is likely to deepen Washington's conviction that the country is hiding a nuclear weapons program. Kenneth Brill, the chief U.S. delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna, asked: "Is it possible that, even as we meet, squads of Iranian technicians are working at still undeclared sites to tile over, paint over, bury, burn or cart away incriminating evidence, so that those sanitized locations can finally be identified to the agency as new evidence of Iran's full cooperation and transparency?"