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VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog governors looked set on Thursday to rebuke Iran over its expanded uranium enrichment and failure to address suspicions of atom bomb research after a draft resolution was amended to reflect a last-minute South African proposal.
Pretoria earlier threw the 35-nation meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board into confusion by putting forward an amendment which some Western diplomats said might have weakened the language towards Iran somewhat.
But a compromise was hammered out during a three-hour adjournment of the closed-door session, the diplomats said. "I think we will be ok," one Western envoy told Reuters.
It was unclear whether the Vienna-based governors' debate on Iran would be concluded in time for a vote to take place later on Thursday or whether it would happen on Friday instead.
Six world powers tabled a resolution text on Wednesday, aiming to raise pressure on Iran, a day after Israel ramped up threats to attack its arch-foe in frustration over the inability of diplomacy and sanctions to rein in the Islamic Republic and ally fears it is covertly seeking nuclear weapons capability.
The resolution censures Iran for defying international demands to suspend uranium enrichment - a conduit to producing fuel for nuclear power stations or bombs - and failing to clarify concerns that it may be after nuclear arms know-how.
Intended to signal big power unity and censure Iran for defying U.N. calls to curb its nuclear activity, the text was supposed to have been approved and voted on by the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday morning.
SOUTH AFRICAN INTERVENTION
But South Africa, like Iran a member of the Non-Aligned Movement of mainly developing nations (NAM), some of whom do not regard Iran as a risk, proposed an amendment later agreed by the United States, Russia, France, China, Britain and Germany.
The amendment concerned a section of the text demanding that Iran immediately implement a yet-to-be agreed framework accord with the IAEA on how the agency should conduct its investigation into suspected nuclear explosives research in the Islamic state.
The compromise changed the original text but not as far as the South African proposal, easing Western fears that it could lower the heat on Tehran to cooperate with IAEA sleuths. It was unclear how Egypt, also in NAM, would vote, diplomats said.
The IAEA has tried in a series of high-profile meetings with Iran that began in January to agree a "Structured Approach" on how to carry out its inquiry. IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano said this week that no concrete results had been achieved, calling the lack of progress "frustrating".
"Iran has not engaged seriously and without preconditions in talks aimed at restoring international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program," the 27-nation European Union said in a statement to the board.
"Iran's procrastination is unacceptable," the bloc said.
A U.S. envoy at the meeting accused Iran of "systematically demolishing" a facility at the Parchin military site that IAEA inspectors want to visit as part of their investigation.
"Iran has been taking measures that appear consistent with an effort to remove evidence of its past activities at Parchin," senior U.S. diplomat Robert Wood told the board gathering.
The resolution could have been approved by the board even of governors without South Africa's support, but the global powers were keen to ensure near-unanimous backing.
Iran says it wants to produce electricity from enriched uranium and not bombs. Refined uranium can be used to fuel nuclear power plants. If enriched to a high degree, it can provide the explosive core for a nuclear warhead.
Israel, believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed state, sees the risk of Iran developing an atom bomb as a threat to its existence and has stepped up hints of military action.
Washington says there is still time for diplomacy and sanctions to make Tehran change course.
(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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