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IAEA: Iran Nuclear Issue Won’t Be Solved Overnight

By Summer Said

The head of the United Nation’s atomic watchdog said Saturday that the issue with Iran overs its nuclear program won’t be resolved overnight and the Persian country should constructively cooperate with a team of inspectors heading to Tehran Sunday.

“It is in the interest of Iran to proactively and fully cooperate with the inspectors. I don’t think we can solve the issue overnight,”International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said in an interview on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.

“It is a complicated issue and has long history. It is not a black and white problem but long negotiations are not my objective,” he said.

The IAEA’s previous efforts to check Iran’s claim its nuclear program has only peaceful purpose had been met before with failure. The agency wants access to a military site called Parchin, which is suspected of conducting explosives testing.

Amano, a soft-spoken Japanese diplomat, took center stage in global affairs in November by releasing a study documenting Iran’s alleged efforts to develop the technologies needed to develop nuclear-tipped mid-range missiles and bomb-triggering systems. Tehran quickly rebuked the report, calling it politically motivated and based on falsified information.

“We have overall crediable information that indicates that Iran is engaging in the development of nuclear explosives,” he said.

“It is difficult to foresee how Iran will cooperate with the inspectors…we don’t know if Iran has declared everything to us and, he said adding that it was too early to say definitively that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday in Davos that there was no other alternative to addressing the Iran crisis than peaceful resolution through dialogue.Tehran has previously fired volleys of insults, accusing Amano of everything from colluding with Washington to complicity in a string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.

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Syrian endures another day of unrest

(CNN) -- Violence engulfed Syria a day after bloody unrest swept the country, opposition activists said on Saturday.

The Local Coordination Committees of Syria said a child was killed, security forces shot and shelled targets, and an oil pipeline exploded in Deir Ezzor province.

Security forces killed a man in the Homs province town of Hawleh, and explosions and shooting rang out in the Homs' city neighborhood of Baba Amr, the LCC said.

An activist died after an ambush by regime forces in the Daraa province town of Al-Gharia Al-Sharqiya, the activists said.

In the Damascus suburbs, security forces killed a man at a checkpoint of Harasta when they shot at his car. Also in those suburbs, corpses were discovered at a farm and clashes occurred between soldiers and the Free Syrian Army, the resistance force comprised of military defectors.

In Aleppo city, security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas grenades to disperse mourners who gathered for a funeral.

On Friday, at least 60 people died amid countrywide mass demonstrations across Syria. Activist stage nationwide protests every Friday, and the LCC said people turned out for 588 demonstrations.

The United Nations last month estimated that more than 5,000 people have died since March, when the government launched a crackdown against peaceful demonstrators. But activist groups estimate a higher death toll, with counts near or exceeding 7,000 people.

Diplomats at the U.N. Security Council are considering a draft resolution that calls on President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power to his vice president.

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In Iraq suicide bomber kills 33 at Shiite funeral

BAGHDAD (AP) – A suicide car bomber has struck a Shiite funeral procession, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that U.S. troops have left Iraq.

The powerful Friday blast — the second deadliest attack in Iraq this month — set nearby stores and cars ablaze alongside scattered flesh and mutilated bodies. It shattered windows and damaged walls in the local hospital, wounding a nurse and four patients. Within minutes, the hospital was scrambling to treat scores of others.

"It was a huge explosion," said Salam Hussein, who was watching the funeral procession from his grocery store.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in southwestern Baghdad. But the bombing resembled previous attacks by al-Qaida in Iraq.

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