U.N. agency seeks funds to verify Iran nuclear deal


  • World
  • Friday, 24 Jan 2014

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic agency asked member countries on Friday for more money to fund its work checking Iran complies with a deal aimed at easing a decade-long stand-off over its nuclear activities.

The International Atomic Energy Agency will nearly double the number of people it has working on Iran as a result of the six-month accord, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. body's 35-nation governing board.

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