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UN Nuke Team Presses Iran; Oil Embargo Vote Tomorrow

Prove You're Not Making Nuclear Weapons: Inspectors

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 28, 2012 3:53 PM CST

(Newser) – A UN nuclear inspection team is headed to Tehran today with a blunt message: You've been stonewalling for too long. "We're looking forward to the start of a dialogue," said atomic energy chief Herman Nackaerts. "A dialogue that is overdue since very long." The International Atomic Energy Agency recently compiled 13 pages of evidence that Iran is aiming to build nuclear weapons, the AP reports. Iran's only concession so far: letting the IAEA team include two senior weapons experts.

In another AP story, Iran's lawmakers plan to vote tomorrow on a bill stopping all oil exports to Europe. Tehran is upset over Europe's economic sanctions and a freeze on Iran's central bank assets. "As long as the EU doesn't lift the oil embargo, we won't give them a drop of oil," an official said. Backers of the bill argue it will hurt the EU's 27 nations more than Iran, because Europe only accounts for 18% of Iran's oil sales.

Herman Nackaerts of the IAEA prepares for his flight to Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.
Herman Nackaerts of the IAEA prepares for his flight to Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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COMMENTS
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Wolfsanker01
Jan 29, 2012 9:03 PM CST
I'm getting sick and tired of Western countries trying to effect other governments around the world. Iran is not the problem. Let them do what they please. They are hardly harming or threatening anyone. Let them be.
JoeQ
Jan 29, 2012 12:46 AM CST
Professor Quatermass is on the IAEA inspection team?

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