IAEA chief repels bid to block aid
Times Wire Reports
The International Atomic Energy Agency chief clashed with some Western nations who wanted to block aid for a planned Syrian nuclear power plant, saying intelligence pointing to a secret effort to produce plutonium was unproven.
Mohamed ElBaradei said Syria was innocent until proved guilty. China, Russia and other nations rejected the Western challenge as political interference.
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