Iran ends cooperation with United Nations nuclear arms probe

By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Vice President and head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, addresses the media after talks with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday. VIENNA, Austria — Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began. The announcement from Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh compounded skepticism about denting Tehran's nuclear defiance, just five days after Tehran stonewalled demands from six world powers that it halt activities capable of producing the fissile core of warheads. Besides demanding a suspension of uranium enrichment — a process that... [read full story]