NEW YORK/WASHINGTONP: Iran and the West remained at loggerheads on Tuesday over UN probes of uranium traces at three Iranian sites as the United States said it did not expect a breakthrough on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal at this week's UN General Assembly.
Resolution of the investigations is critical to the IAEA, which seeks to ensure parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are not secretly diverting nuclear material which they could use to make a weapon. Speaking in Washington, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he did not expect any breakthrough during this week's UN meetings but reiterated the US willingness to revive the deal, under which Iran limited its nuclear program in return for economic sanctions relief.