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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Iran nuclear stand-off escalates

Iran's dispute with the UN and Western countries has deepened after Tehran resumed nuclear research.

As Iran removed UN seals from equipment at Natanz facility, UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Tehran would start small-scale nuclear enrichment. The chief US representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, said Iran had shown "its disdain for international concerns" and had taken a deliberate step towards creating the material for a nuclear bomb.

In a "completely unrelated", Several U.S. agents in Iran were rounded up after the CIA mistakenly revealed clues to their identities to a covert source who turned out to be a double agent, according to a book that hit shelves Tuesday.

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