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UN's Nuclear Probe of Iran Falters
(AP-Washington Post) The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency is no nearer to closing the books on persistent allegations that Iran worked on nuclear arms in the past. While the IAEA's probe is formally separate from the talks between Iran and six world powers, the U.S. and its allies insist that Tehran must provide satisfactory explanations to the UN agency as part of any overall deal. Back in November, Tehran agreed to go into deeper explanations of its work on detonators that have a variety of uses, including sparking a nuclear explosion. That has not happened. The IAEA outlined its suspicions in a 2011 report, saying that Iran's work on the detonators is of concern, "given their possible application in a nuclear explosive device, and the fact that there are limited civilian and conventional military applications for such technology."