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IAEA Inspectors to Iran Next Week
Iran's refusal to cooperate and allow inspectors to return to facilities like Arak prompted the Security Council to become involved last year. It has imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran over the nuclear standoff.
Tougher sanctions against Iran were likely, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, declining to reject outright the prospect of military action.
  The deputy chief of the Iranian security council Reza Vaidi, left, and the deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olli Heinonen attend a press briefing after their talks in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday July, 24 2007. (AP Photo/Hans Punz) (Hans Punz - AP) PHOTOS |
Brown said he believed sanctions aimed at persuading Iran to halt uranium enrichment were working, but predicted a swift new Security Council resolution aimed at increasing pressure on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He said Britain would "take whatever measures are necessary to strengthen the sanctions regime in the future."
Enrichment can produce both fuel for a reactor and _ if the material is enriched to a high level _ the core for a nuclear warhead.
Heavy-water reactors like Arak are of particular concern because they generate plutonium waste that could be reprocessed for use in a weapon.
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