EU slows down drive to refer Iran to Security Council

The European Union has backed away from a direct push to refer Iran to the UN Security Council this week and is now only implicitly threatening Tehran with such action, according to a document obtained today.

The document – a draft resolution drawn up for the current meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation board – now says only that suspicions over Iran’s nuclear programme are “within the competence of the Security Council".