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US hopes for ‘progress’ with Iran after European powers dial back pressure

Britain, France and Germany decided not to move forward with a plan to censure Iran during the UN nuclear watchdog agency's quarterly meeting.
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The United States hopes for “credible, concrete progress” after the nuclear deal’s European signatories backed down from censuring Iran, and Tehran agreed to meet with technical experts over the discovery of uranium particles at its undeclared nuclear sites. 

During a meeting of the 35-member Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)  in Vienna, Britain, France and Germany on Thursday abandoned a planned resolution that would have condemned Tehran’s lack of cooperation with the IAEA, including Iran's preventing inspectors from making short-notice visits to its nuclear facilities.   

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