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Iran to Allow IAEA Inspectors into Nuclear Plant
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Magnu-@aol.com
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Oct 02, 2009 07:34 PDT
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_http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-26-voa9.cfm_
(http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-26-voa9.cfm)
Iran to Allow IAEA Inspectors into Nuclear Plant By VOA News
26 September 2009
Iran says it will allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy
Agency into its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi delivers
a speech at the beginning of a general conference of the IAEA, in Vienna,
Austria, 14 Sep 2009Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Saturday on
Iranian state television the timing of the visit will be worked out with
the IAEA.
Earlier, a top aide to Iran's Supreme Leader said the Iranian nuclear
facility should be operational soon.
The chief of staff to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran's Fars News Agency
that "God Willing, the new plant will be operational soon and make the
enemy blind."
On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders accused
Iran of building a secret nuclear plant and insisted the IAEA have immediate
access to ensure it is not being built to produce nuclear weapons.
Iran denied the facility has been a secret.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran complied with IAEA rules
by informing the agency early enough that the facility near the holy Shi'ite
city of Qum was under construction.
In Israel Saturday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the newly
disclosed atomic facility was proof Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. He said he
hopes world powers will give an "unequivocal" response when
representatives from Germany, the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia meet with
Iranian officials in Geneva on October 1.
Israel has described Iran's nuclear program as a threat to the Jewish
state and has not ruled out any options in preventing Iran from acquiring
atomic weapons.
The United States and its allies accuse Iran of working to produce a
nuclear weapon. Iran says its atomic program is for peaceful purposes, to
generate electric power.
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