World Watch
IRAN</br></br>U.S. Says Major Powers</br></br>To Seek More Sanctions</br></br>Six world powers agreed to seek new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program after the country failed to meet a weekend deadline to respond to an offer intended to defuse the dispute, the U.S. said.</br></br>Representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany decided in a high-level conference call that Iran's lack of response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to halt sensitive atomic activity left them no option other than to pursue new punitive measures, the U.S. said.