Irani President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations. Photo: Screen shot.

AP/WSJ – Iran agreed on Monday to allow the United Nations to expand monitoring at the country’s nuclear sites, including at a new reactor, state television reported, in a deal that could boost wider negotiations over Tehran’s atomic program.

The deal was struck during talks in Tehran with the U.N. nuclear chief as part of a parallel initiative to the broader efforts under way to ease Western concerns that Iran could one day develop nuclear weapons—an assertion Iran denies.

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