
IAEA: Chernobyl Shelter in Need of Immediate Renovation
The shell covering the nuclear power plant has lost protective capabilities, the agency said.

The shell covering the nuclear power plant has lost protective capabilities, the agency said.

Top diplomat calls IAEA pact obsolete after sanctions, but says diplomacy is still possible.

“There will continue to be maximum economic pressure on Iran until they change course,” the U.S. Secretary of State said.

Enshrining its doomsday weapons in law, Pyongyang will “firmly oppose and reject any attempt to alter the current status of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and, as a responsible nuclear–armed state.”

Despite compromises made so far, the International Atomic Energy Agency is asserting its right to inspect nuclear sites inside the Islamic Republic.

The 12-day war saw Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which the IAEA has not been able to access since.

The meeting will mark the second since Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel in mid-June, during which the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear sites.

The Iranian foreign minister also said Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency “will take on a new form.”

State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said the country’s actions are “unacceptable” when it has a “window of opportunity to reverse course and choose a path of peace.”

The promulgation of the law on the suspension comes days after a ceasefire in a war that saw Israeli and U.S. strikes on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.