Iran has suggested it may consider a complete suspension of nuclear enrichment, meeting a key demand set by most countries of the UN atomic watchdog agency.

The US expressed alarm today about a possible Iranian nuclear weapons related test site and accused the UN nuclear watchdog agency of keeping silent on its own concerns about the issue.

Iran’s refusal to fully give up uranium enrichment – and banish suspicions it is interested in nuclear arms – set the stage for a confrontation at a key UN atomic watchdog agency meeting today.

Iran avoided sanctions in a sharply-worded resolution approved today by the UN nuclear watchdog agency today, but was censured for past cover-ups.