With time running out on efforts to monitor Iran’s nuclear program, 2013 could well be the year when the United States must decide whether to take military action to block Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency were back in Tehran this week to review Iran’s nuclear activities, and once again they came home with little to show for their efforts. The IAEA wants to verify that Iran does not intend to build a nuclear weapon, but the authorities in Tehran have consistently refused to provide inspectors with the access they need to fulfill their mission.
“Differences remain,” IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts told reporters upon his return to Vienna on Friday morning. “We could not … resolve the outstanding issues regarding possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program.”
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