Fri, Nov 28, 2003 - Page 6 News List

UN's nuclear arms watchdog censures Iran

COMPROMISE The resolution was weaker than the US had hoped for, but the head of the IAEA said it would give him the power to verify Iran's nuclear intentions

AP , VIENNA, AUSTRIA

US envoy Kenneth Brill asserted that the resolution already found Iran in "noncompliance" -- and therefore pulled the "trigger" needed for Security Council involvement.

"The board will not countenance further evasive maneuvers by Iran," Brill told the meeting.

Later, he described Iran as being at a "crossroads."

"They can decide to continue down the well-worn path of the past -- almost 20 years of denial, deception and deceit -- or they can turn toward the path of a new chapter, wherein they really do come clean," he told reporters.

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