World leaders are taking up discussion of Iran's controversial nuclear program at the U.N. General Assembly at the headquarters of the United Nations this week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there was no proof Iran was working on the technology needed to make a weapon, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reports. More work was needed from Tehran to verify the program's peaceful intentions, however.
He added that any military action against Iran would have "negative" consequences.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an 11-page report to U.N. member states, said Iran was holding back information related to its nuclear program after barring two U.N. inspectors from doing their work, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.
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