UN Council set to adopt new Iran sanctions

The chief UN nuclear inspector urged Iran yesterday to stop stonewalling his experts and cooperate over indications it may have tried to make atomic arms under the cover of a civilian nuclear program.

A senior Iranian official said such allegations were "fabricated." But a US envoy repeated Washington's assertions that Teheran tried to make such weapons in the past.

The 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) convened, meanwhile, to focus on Iran's defiance of UN Security Council demands to freeze uranium enrichment.