UN TO INSPECT IRAN NUCLEAR SITE OCTOBER 25
4 October 2009The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog on Sunday said inspectors would be examining Iran’s recently revealed nuclear facility on October 25.
Mohammed ElBaradei spoke in Tehran following talks with Iranian officials over a recently revealed uranium enrichment facility that has caused consternation around to world over the extent and purpose of Iran’s nuclear program.
At the news conference Sunday, ElBaradei said that Iran’s relations with the West were moving from “conspiracy” to “cooperation” and that the nuclear dispute could be resolved through diplomacy.
“It is important for us to send our inspectors to have a comprehensive verification of the facility and to make sure that it is for peaceful purposes,” he said. “We agreed that our inspectors will inspect the site on the 25th of October.”
ElBaradei, who sat alongside Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi, said talks had been a success and he saw the possibility of defusing the international crisis over Iran’s nuclear program.
“We need transparency on the part of Iran and we need cooperation on the part of the international community,” he said, describing a shifting of gears in relations between Iran and the western powers.
Revelations that Iran had a second, previously unknown, site to refine uranium has raised new international fears over the purposes of the nation’s nuclear program.
The U.S. and its allies say Iran’s program is seeking nuclear weapons while Iran says it is for peaceful purposes.
Addressing the issue of the recently revealed nuclear site at Qom, ElBaradei said that “Iran should have informed us the day they decided to construct the facility … Iran has a different view on that but the agency view was that,” he said.
He said Salehi would visit the IAEA headquarters in Vienna on October 19, ahead of the inspectors visit to Iran.
“It is important for us to have comprehensive cooperation over the Qom site. We had dialogue, we had talks on clarification of the facility in Qom, which is a pilot enrichment plant,” ElBaradei said.
He said there was no “concrete proof” that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons capability but the IAEA remained concerned over the possibility.
“I continue to say today that the agency has no concrete proof that there is an ongoing weapons program in Iran. There are allegations that Iran has conducted weaponization studies. However, these are issues that we are still looking into,” ElBaradei said, speaking in English.
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