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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA States that Iran Has Missed Deadline to Halt Uranium Enrichment

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In front of a picture of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves to the crowd during a public gathering at the city of Orumiyeh 540 miles (900 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran , Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Iran’s president defiantly refused to compromise as a U.N. deadline for his country to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday, saying Tehran would not be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology.

Reuters: IAEA says Iran fails to meet nuclear deadline

The U.N. nuclear agency declared Iran had failed to halt nuclear work by a Thursday deadline, and Tehran defied the threat of sanctions by vowing never to abandon a program the West fears could give it atom bombs.

A confidential report of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), leaked to Reuters, said Iran resumed enriching small amounts of uranium in recent days. The agency said its probes had been blocked by lack of Iranian cooperation.

“The Iranian nation will never abandon its obvious right to peaceful nuclear technology,” Iranian state radio quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, hours before time ran out for Iran to stop enriching uranium.

The U.N. Security Council had asked Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, to spell out on August 31 whether Iran had complied with the deadline set in a July 31 resolution.

Iran’s disregard of the Council’s order to stop enriching uranium exposes it to possible sanctions and was widely expected after it opened a heavy water production plant on August 26 and vowed not to mothball its nuclear program.

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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