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UN nuke agency: progress on Iran nuclear program

By George Jahn
Published December 14, 2012 8:06pm ET
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UN nuke agency: progress on Iran nuclear program
Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, waves as he arrives from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Nackaerts says his team made headway during talks in Tehran meant to restart an investigation of suspicions the Islamic Republic may have secretly worked on a nuclear arms program. He says that means the U.N. nuclear agency expects to resume its probe early next year. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) | Ronald Zak

VIENNA (AP) — A senior U.N. official announced progress Friday in long-stalled efforts to resume a probe of suspicions that Iran may have worked to develop nuclear arms, saying the investigation could be restarted by early next year.

Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency spoke of headway after returning from talks with Iranian officials in Tehran, saying his team was “able to make progress” and the IAEA expects to “start implementing” an agreement on the probe shortly after new talks in Tehran on Jan. 16

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