IAEA says next leader should enter office in January, following death of Yukiya Amano last month

Cornel Feruta replaces Japan's Yukiya Amano, who recently died at the age of 72

IAEA's chief coordinator and Argentine envoy to agency considered frontrunners to replace Yukiya Amano after his death last week

Government-linked Tasnim claims Yukiya Amano was killed for refusing to bow to pressure from Jerusalem and Washington

Japanese diplomat succumbs to cancer after heading IAEA for a decade, sources say, plunging agency into uncertainty at highly sensitive time

10 months after PM identified 'secret atomic warehouse' in Tehran, UN inspectors reportedly conclude that it was indeed used as a nuclear storage facility

At emergency IAEA meeting, US urges world powers to reject 'nuclear extortion' from Tehran, which is seeking economic relief to offset American sanctions

Netanyahu says Tehran seeking to signal it could move towards a bomb, adding that it would take several years and Israel will 'make sure it doesn't happen'

Apparent violation of the pact comes a week after Tehran announced it had exceeded its caps on stockpiling low-enriched material

Tehran claims increase for "peaceful' purposes, accuses US and Europe of breaking nuke deal commitment, but move likely to further ratchet up tensions