West prods Iran to speed up cooperation with IAEA inquiry

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* IAEA: Iran has begun to cooperate with nuclear bomb probe * West wants Tehran to move faster to resolve concerns * Iran says rejects bomb research allegations as false (Adds U.S., Canadian statements, context) By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, June 4 (Reuters) - Iran faced Western pressure on Wednesday to speed up its promised cooperation with a long-stalled U.N. nuclear watchdog investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by Tehran, something the Islamic state denies. The European Union - which groups three of the six powers seeking to negotiate a settlement to a decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme - **ted that "some" progress had been made in separate talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But, the 28-nation EU added in a statement to a quarterly meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation governing board, "We call on Iran to provide all the relevant information to the agency, to address fully the substance of all of the agency's concerns and to accelerate its cooperation with the agency." Canada's ambassador to the Vienna-based IAEA put it more bluntly, saying Iran was using a kind of "salami-sliced, piece-by-piece approach" in its dealings with the U.N. watchdog.

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