Nations close to agreement on denying reactor help to Iran

Most participants at a key 35-nation meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency have agreed to deny Iran technical aid for its plutonium producing reactor, diplomats at the gathering said today.

Speaking as an International Atomic Energy Agency committee meeting started its second day in Vienna, Austria, the diplomats – all of them participants - said the tentative agreement foresaw approving Tehran’s requests for IAEA aid on seven other nuclear projects, but refusing its call for help in building the Arak reactor.