What does the IAEA resolution say?
The resolution catalogues a list of stiff requirements: unrestricted access for UN nuclear inspectors, and answers to questions on possible conversion of nuclear materials from civil use to military use. Iran must explain traces that have been found of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, and gas centrifuges for enrichment, and give “a full declaration” of imported equipment for such use … Although the ultimatum has no provision automatically triggering sanctions against Iran if it fails to comply, diplomats at the agency said [IAEA chief] Mohammed El Baradei would have little choice but to report Iran to the UN security council as being in breach of the treaty. That could mean swingeing sanctions, and produce a bigger crisis. Ian Traynor in the Guardian, September 12 How has Iran responded? Iran inisists it has no nuclear arms ambitions and accuses Washington of seeking a pretext to invade the Islamic republic as it had its neighbours Afghanistan and Iraq. “The nature of our coope
