The UN’s nuclear watchdog will report that Iran is continuing to obstruct its investigation into allegations of past work on nuclear weapons, but the country’s uranium enrichment programme was expanding more slowly than expected. The report, due to be released today or tomorrow, is likely to sharpen debate within the Obama administration, which is reviewing its Iran policy. Previewing the report, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave a scathing assessment of Iran’s co-operation with his inspectors’ inquiries into the country’s past nuclear experimentation, alleged by the US and its allies to be aimed at building weapons.
