Converting a crisis into an opportunity: Thomas Land reports from the United Nations International Atomic Energy headquarters in Vienna on moves to establish the Middle East region as a nuclear weapons-free zone.

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Converting a crisis into an opportunity: Thomas Land reports from the United Nations International Atomic Energy headquarters in Vienna on moves to establish the Middle East region as a nuclear weapons-free zone.

MOHAMED EL BARADEI, director-general of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has set out to convert the crisis generated by Iran's controversial nuclear power policy into an opportunity to free the Middle East of nuclear weapons. The moment may just be ripe for such a bold attempt. The Egyptian Nobel Peace Laureate has declared: "We cannot afford to miss it."

Both El Baradei and the 139-member IAEA ...

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