Iran acting to allow closer monitoring of nuclear programme


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Dec 2013

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors are to visit an Iranian plant on Sunday linked to a planned heavy-water reactor that could yield nuclear bomb fuel, taking up an initial gesture by Iran to open its disputed nuclear programme up to greater scrutiny.

The increased transparency is one of the various spin-offs from a dramatic diplomatic rapprochement over the past month highlighted by a deal Iran struck with six world powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for some easing of sanctions.

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