20.09.201006:59:00UTC+00Iran says UN atom body is suffering credibility crisis

News

• Iran said that the U.N. nuclear watchdog was suffering a crisis of "moral authority and credibility", underlining increasingly strained ties between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, criticised the IAEA's latest report on the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear programme as unfair and suggested that Western powers had influenced it.
• The report showed Iran pressing ahead with its atomic workin defiance of tougher international sanctions. Iran says its work is for peaceful uses only.

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• "It appears that the agency is suffering from moral authority and credibility crisis," Ali Akbar Salehi,  head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation