IAEA to hold talks with Iran

The UN atomic agency said Friday it will hold next month its first talks with Iran since August over Tehran's nuclear efforts, in a first sign of renewed diplomatic activity since the US election.
The Vienna-based IAEA wants Tehran to address evidence suggesting that until 2003, and possibly since, Iran conducted research work "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device."
A parallel diplomatic push by six world powers has been aimed at persuading Iran to scale back parts of its current nuclear programme because of suspicions -- denied by Tehran -- that it wants the bomb.
Efforts on both "tracks" have, however, effectively been on hold in recent months because of campaigning for the US presidential election that incumbent Barack Obama won Tuesday.