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Friday 3 October 2014
UN nuclear watchdog team to visit Tehran for talks
A high-level UN nuclear watchdog team
will visit Tehran for talks in coming days, Iran said
on Friday, more than a month after it missed a
deadline for addressing questions about its
suspected atomic bomb research.
Diplomats told Reuters on Thursday that the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was
expected to make a new attempt soon to advance
its long-running investigation into Iran’s nuclear
programme and that a meeting might be held in
the Iranian capital early next week.
Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-
based UN agency, said the IAEA delegation would
be led by the head of its division dealing with
nuclear safeguards issues, Deputy Director
General Tero Varjoranta.
In an apparent reference to Thursday’s Reuters
article, Najafi was quoted as saying on the web
site of Iran’s Press TV television: “It is regrettable
that classified information in the agency has not
been protected again.”
He added: “While Iran and the agency were busy
planning (the meeting), the news was published
by a Western media outlet ... This issue once again
confirms Iran’s misgivings that spying exists in the
agency.”
There was no immediate comment from the IAEA,
which for years has been trying to investigate
Western allegations that Iran has worked on
designing a nuclear warhead. Iran says its nuclear
programme is entirely peaceful.
Western officials say Iran must step up
cooperation with the IAEA if it wants to reach a
broader diplomatic deal with world powers that
would end a decade-old nuclear dispute and
gradually end crippling financial and other
sanctions on the oil producer.
Early last month, the IAEA said Iran had failed to
answer questions by an agreed Aug. 25 deadline
about two areas of the investigation into alleged
research activities that could be applicable to any
attempt to make nuclear bombs - explosives
testing and neutron calculations.
While rejecting the accusations as baseless, Iran
has promised since Hassan Rouhani, seen as a
pragmatist, became president last year on a
platform to end its international isolation, to work
with the IAEA to clear up the suspicions.
Rouhani’s election raised hopes of a solution to
the stand-off with the West after years of rising
tension that raised fears of a new Middle East
war. An interim accord was reached between Iran
and six major powers - the United States, France,
Germany, Britain, China and Russia - in Geneva
last November.
But they did not meet a self-imposed July target
date for a long-term accord and now face a new
deadline of Nov. 24.
While the powers seek to limit the size of Iran’s
future nuclear programme - and thereby extend
the time it would need for any attempt to
accumulate fissile material for a weapon - the
IAEA is investigating alleged research and
experiments in the past that could be used to
make the bomb itself.
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