Iran to scale back UN nuke cooperation

IRAN will scale back its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog in response to the agency’s October 31 deadline for Tehran to prove its atomic programmes are peaceful, Iran’s representative to the agency has said.

Ali Akbar Salehi said on Iranian television on Monday that Iran had been allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency more leeway than required under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "to show our good will and transparency".

He said that they had allowed IAEA inspectors to take environmental samples and visit non-nuclear sites.