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Iran Worked on Nuclear Weapons Before 2009, UN Agency Finds


(Wall Street Journal) Laurence Norman and Jay Solomon - The Obama administration said it expects to start lifting sanctions on Iran as early as January after the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday found no credible evidence that Tehran has recently engaged in atomic-weapons activity. But the agency reported that Iran had pursued such a program in secret until 2009, longer than previously believed. The report also indicated that Iran showed limited cooperation with investigators. Nonetheless, senior U.S. officials said they expected the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors to vote this month to formally close its decade-long probe of Iran's past weapons work.
2015-12-03 00:00:00
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