At the IAEA we helped to lead efforts to adopt a resolution at the June 2011 Board of Governors meeting finding Syria in noncompliance with its international nuclear obligations and referring the issue to the Security Council.
The former IAEA chief said at the time that he wasn't certain if the intelligence was genuine.
Still, Iranian officials at IAEA headquarters in Vienna have said this week that they continue to want to have new talks with the U.S. and other world powers on the nuclear issue.
We are strengthening security at our own nuclear facilities, and will invite the IAEA to review the security at our neutron research center.
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Some members of the media professed shock and surprise at the IAEA announcement.
The US deputy chief of mission also waded into the heated discussion at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, accusing Syria of being obstructive.
Its growing proximity to Washington is believed to have influenced India to back a recent resolution at the IAEA referring Iran's nuclear activities to the UN Security Council.
And you noticed that in the wake of that, when there was a vote at the IAEA Board of Governors, that there was a great sweeping consensus in support of that vote.
Again, 32 to 2 at the IAEA -- that's a stronger vote than in the last IAEA resolution -- and 106 to 9, without a single Arab or Muslim country voting against it.
He worked closely with the White House in the final months of his tenure at the IAEA to try to forge an agreement with Iran that would have seen Tehran ship out the majority of its low-enriched uranium to a third country.
What I can tell you is that the Russians and the Chinese, along with 30 other countries yesterday, at the IAEA voted for a resolution calling on Iran to meet its obligations, and commending the Secretary to the IAEA for the report.
Last September a decision was made by certain member states not to bring up the Israel Nuclear Capabilities resolution at the 2011 IAEA General Conference.
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Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA, pointed an accusatory finger at Syria.
At the time, the IAEA had begun to insist that Iran provide a "complete picture" of its nuclear program.
Damascus has allowed IAEA inspectors to visit the suspect site at al-Kibar in June but has refused any follow-up trips.
But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the IAEA vote "a theatrical move aimed at pressuring Iran" that would be "useless", state news agency Irna reported.
The resolution came a day after the outgoing head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, expressed frustration at Iran's refusal to accept an international proposal to end the dispute over its nuclear programme.
The IAEA released a report each quarter detailing its progress at monitoring Iran's nuclear development.
" According to the Los Angeles Times, the IAEA director, Mohamed ElBaradei, a former law professor at New York University, sallied forth to defend his organization's honor saying " the report used the word 'evidence' to mean 'proof' - words that he argued were interchangeable in a legal sense.
"We don't see it, " the IAEA's former top inspector, Olli Heinonen, said at Washington roundtable Monday on Iran's nuclear program.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has long suspected nuclear weapons research is taking place at the site, just outside Tehran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there had been some "positive developments" at the site but that the situation was still "of serious concern".
Tehran also notified the IAEA last week that it was installing more advanced centrifuge machines at its uranium-enrichment facility in the city of Natanz, potentially providing Iran the ability to triple its nuclear-fuel production at the site.
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In 2003, cowed by the might deployed in removing Saddam Hussein, it opened up Natanz, and a nuclear reactor site at Arak that had also previously been secret, to IAEA inspection.
The IAEA's inspectors would doubtless like to take a closer look at the country's nuclear programme, but on Thursday the government in Islamabad said it would not hand over any documents.
The head of the IAEA team, Juan Carlos Lentijo, suggested on Monday that the cleanup at the plant would take up to 40 years.
At the same time, they have attempted to draw the IAEA inspectors into protracted negotiations that would buy time to reach what the Israelis call the "zone of immunity" after which Israel no longer has a viable military option.
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Last year, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) found particles of man-made uranium at the al-Kibar site in Syria, which was destroyed by Israeli missiles in September 2007.
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