Putin: IAEA should continue role in Iranian nuclear issue

Russian President Vladimir Putin today said that the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, should continue to play a central role in resolving the Iranian nuclear issue and he called on Iran to fulfill its international obligations.

“The IAEA must play a key role… it mustn’t shrug this role from its shoulders” and pass it on to the UN Security Council, Putin said in the Siberian city of Tomsk.