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Warnings multiply over Iran

Latest rebuff of UN nuclear team stirs allies, critics

By George Jahn

 |  Associated Press  

  February 23, 2012

Russia said yesterday that the world should not draw “hasty conclusions’’ over Iran’s most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance. Under international pressure to show restraint, Israel, which has warned repeatedly that it may strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, pointedly urged major world powers to mind their own business, saying it alone would decide what to do to protect the Jewish state’s security.

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