Canada expressed profound concern Friday at Iran's nuclear program and welcomed a resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog that gives Tehran until October 31 to prove it is not secretly developing atomic weapons."We urge Iran to take this opportunity and cooperate fully with the IAEA," said Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham.
Iran has already rejected the International Atomic Energy Agencydeadline, but pledged to give a thorough review of its dealings with the UN body.
"The IAEA's findings are deeply disturbing and show that Iran's nuclear program is a potentially serious threat to regional and international peace and security," Graham said in a statement.
However Friday's resolution, adopted in Vienna, "sends a firm, clear signal to Iran and the world and demonstrates widespread concern about Iran's nuclear programme," he said.
The international community has for months pressed Iran to let inspectors carry out in-depth random searches of its nuclear facilities by signing an extra protocol to the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Washington and Paris suspect the Islamic regime is building a nuclear weapon under cover of its civil nuclear program.
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