Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a late-night statement in response to the vote, saying it “strongly condemns” the action taken by the IAEA’s board of governors and called the move political. The censure followed a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency a week ago that said Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels,

By Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed and John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Three European powers have written to the U.N. Security Council detailing Iran's violations of its 2015 nuclear deal, a step diplomats said on Thursday aimed to pressure Tehran to resolve the issue diplomatically and to avoid reimposing U.

The United Nations’ atomic watchdog is preparing to pass a resolution of censure against Iran, deepening a diplomatic rift over the Islamic Republic’s contested nuclear program.