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The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has produced close to 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium.

If that material were to be enriched further, experts say it would probably be enough to make a single atomic bomb.

The achievement is largely symbolic at this point.

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AP - VIENNA, Austria — Islamic anger over Israel's nuclear program and bids by Iran and Syria to gain more influence threaten to turn this week's 145-nation International Atomic Energy Agency meeting into an unprecedented showdown between the West and the developing world.

AP - Syria has told fellow Arab countries that it will not permit an International Atomic Energy Agency probe to extend beyond a site bombed by Israel, despite agency interest in three other suspect locations, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Reuters - Iran has shown new openness about nuclear advances earlier off-limits to U.N.