{"id":12440,"date":"2012-07-15T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/analysis-uns-iran-atom-probe-hostage-to-big-power-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2012-07-15T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T10:49:13","slug":"analysis-uns-iran-atom-probe-hostage-to-big-power-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-uns-iran-atom-probe-hostage-to-big-power-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-UN&#8217;s Iran atom probe &quot;hostage&quot; to big power diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* IAEA &#8220;back to square one&#8221; after several rounds of Iran<br \/>\ntalks<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ending deadlock may depend on progress in big power<br \/>\ndiplomacy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* West suspects clean-up at site U.N. inspectors want to see<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons capability<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Fredrik Dahl<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>VIENNA, July 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Offering immunity or an easing<br \/>\nof the sanctions pressure may be the only way &#8211; if there is one<br \/>\nat all &#8211; to coax Iran to end years of stonewalling a U.N.<br \/>\nwatchdog investigation into suspected nuclear weapons research<br \/>\nin the Islamic state.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Any such initiative would likely need to come from world<br \/>\npowers as part of a broader diplomatic thrust to defuse the<br \/>\ndispute over Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, leaving the investigation<br \/>\nby the U.N. atomic agency dependent on how those talks develop.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has failed in<br \/>\na series of high-profile rounds of discussions in the last six<br \/>\nmonths to persuade Tehran to give it access to sites, officials<br \/>\nand documents it says it needs for the long-stalled inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The roller-coaster negotiations have underlined the IAEA&#8217;s<br \/>\nlimited power to make Iran cooperate with it, suggesting Tehran<br \/>\nwill do so only if it gets something in return elsewhere and<br \/>\nfuelling Western suspicions that it is playing for time.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* IAEA &#8220;back to square one&#8221; after several rounds of Iran talks * Ending deadlock may depend on progress in big power diplomacy * West suspects clean-up at site U.N. inspectors want to see * Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons capability By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, July 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Offering immunity or an easing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}