NUCLEAR: Rumsfeld Calls for International Pressure to Curb Iran’s Nuclear Program

August 13, 2004 - “The Iranians have almost consistently responded to the IAEA in an unsatisfactory way,” US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday in Baku, after a meeting with Azerbaijan head of state Elham Aliev. The US feels that international pressure is necessary to curb Iran’s attempt to circumvent scrutiny of its nuclear program by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency. Mr. Rumsfeld comments were in response to a reporter who asked bout Iran’s suspected program of developing nuclear weapons.