Iran Makes Steep Nuclear Gains, UN Says

[Los Angeles Times] Bob Drogin - Defying the international community, Iran has sharply upgraded its capacity to enrich uranium in recent months while the outside world's access to and grasp of Iran's nuclear program "has deteriorated," according to a unusually blunt report Wednesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. "Iran is thumbing its nose at the international community," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said in Washington. "We are not going to agree to accept limited enrichment, to accept that 1,300 centrifuges can continue spinning at their plant at Natanz."


2007-05-24 01:00:00

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