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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Iran irked by cancellation of WMD summit

Ali Asghar Soltanieh |The Iranian envoy to the IAEA lashed out Monday at a U.S. decision to cancel an upcoming conference on Middle East weapons programs.

Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, announced last week that a conference to discuss the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East was canceled.

"The United States regrets to announce that the conference cannot be convened because of present conditions in the Middle East and the fact that states in the region have not reached agreement on acceptable conditions for a conference," she said in a statement.

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