Credit: TOI
TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday lifted the curtain on a summit of non-aligned states it presented as a diplomatic triumph, but the event was held under the cloud of intensified UN scrutiny of the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, in Tehran, spent the eve of the summit telling Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad they needed to provide “concrete” steps to ease the showdown over their country’s disputed atomic activities.