(Wall Street Journal) Laurence Norman - The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, left Iran Tuesday after failing to reach a deal to allow inspectors access to a factory in Karaj producing key parts for centrifuges for Tehran's nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday. With Iran, the U.S. and other major powers set to resume negotiations in Vienna next Monday aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear capabilities, that raised new concerns among Western officials that Iran could be diverting nuclear equipment to a possible covert nuclear weapons program. Two diplomats said Iran declined to offer the IAEA access to Karaj unless Grossi dropped parts of a continuing probe into the discovery of undisclosed nuclear material in Iran over the past two years. Grossi declined.
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