(AFP/Yahoo) U.S. ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Kenneth Brill said Wednesday that Iran's refusal to fully cooperate with the agency "fits a long-term pattern of denial and deception that can only be designed to mask Iran's military nuclear program." "What is it that the Iranians are so intent on hiding?" Brill asked. "Iran is still stalling, providing last-minute declarations and contradicting earlier definitive statements....The IAEA continues to find new, incriminating evidence of undeclared activity," Brill said. "The question is how long the (IAEA) board of governors and the international community will tolerate this."
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