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Temperature rises in combustible Middle East

By David Gardner

Published: March 2 2010 22:02 | Last updated: March 2 2010 22:02

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog overseeing Iran’s geopolitically incendiary nuclear programme, might turn out to have bite as well as bark.

Its latest report, under the leadership of Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, who in December replaced Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA’s long-serving Egyptian chief, comes close to accusing Tehran of running a covert atomic weapons programme.

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