UN nuke chief heads to Iran to push for progress in nuclear weapons probe

With a key deadline approaching, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency is leaving for Tehran Saturday for high-level meetings as he tries to accelerate his probe of allegations that Iran worked in the past on nuclear weapons.

Diplomats had said Friday that Yukiya Amano of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency was planning such a trip. Confirming Amano's trip, IAEA spokesman Fredrik Dahl said that Amano would arrive Sunday for meetings aimed at "clarifications of past and present outstanding issues" linked to the agency's probe.

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