The UN nuclear watchdog's governing board has passed an EU resolution requiring that Iran be reported to the Security Council at an unspecified date over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Rather than adopt the resolution by consensus, as it prefers to do, the IAEA board voted on the text. There were 22 votes for the EU's draft, one vote against and 12 abstentions.
In what EU diplomats said was a major victory for western efforts to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran, both China and Russia, which had strongly opposed the EU's proposed resolution, abstained. Venezuela was the only country to vote against it.
