Fredrik Dahl
Reuters
January 24, 2014
The U.N. nuclear chief said on Friday there was “still a long way to go” to resolve a decade-old dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, a note of caution days after Tehran curbed its atomic activity under an interim deal with world powers.
Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made the comment as he won broad backing from the IAEA’s 35-nation board for the U.N. body’s expanded role in Iran to check that it complies with the accord over the next six months.
Many governments said they would help pay the estimated $8 million the IAEA needs to inspect Iranian nuclear sites under the deal, which took effect on Monday, diplomats who attended the closed-door meeting said.
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