Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iranian scientists experimented with technologies that could be used to make a nuclear bomb without ever taking the final steps needed to turn their work into a weapon, international investigators said in a landmark report aimed at ending a 12-year inquiry. International Atomic Energy Agency monitors assessed that Iran ceased work that could be used to develop a weapon by 2009, the Vienna-based agency found in a restricted report obtained Wednesday by Bloomberg News. Pending its approval by the IAEA’s board of governors at a Dec. 15 meeting, the document will close the weapons inquiry and bring Iran one step closer to relief from international economic sanctions. “These activities did not advance beyond feasibility and scientific studies, and the acquisition of certain relevant technical competences and capabilities,” IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano wrote in the report. “The Agency has […]