Iran nuclear plans top concern at G8

Canada is to press the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations to tighten United Nations sanctions on Iran when it hosts a meeting of foreign ministers from the group.

The Group of Eight meeting of foreign ministers will be held on Monday and Tuesday in the Quebec town of Gatineau, across the river from the federal capital Ottawa.

Iran's nuclear issue will be of critical concern with

Canada and the US pushing the Group to face a difficult question.

Iranian technicians are seen at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities (UCF), south of Tehran, in 2005. (AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)