Iran impedes inspectors' access to nuke site - UN diplomats
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"The Iranian people will retain their rights and nothing special will happen, " he said. In Vienna, Europe's top three powers distributed a draft resolution at the UN atomic watchdog Monday calling for Iran to be reported to the Security Council this week over its nuclear fuel work, diplomats told AFP. "We're going for referral this week, " a Western diplomat said, confirming that the United States, as well as EU negotiating trio Britain, France and Germany, had lost patience with Iran.
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VIENNA - Experts from the U.N. nuclear watchdog have
inspected an underground uranium enrichment
plant in Iran and verified that
Tehran has kept its word by freezing all sensitive nuclear work
there, diplomats said on Friday.
Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) Senior diplomats from six key nations that have been struggling to find a way to deal with Iran's suspect nuclear program will try to take a longer, strategic view of the standoff in discussions Monday, U.N. ambassadors said. wielding U.N. the United States, Russia, China, as well as Germany will be holding talks as the council tries to overcome differences on a statement demanding a quick report on Iran's nuclear program.
Laptop Computers A team from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) went to the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz in central
Iran on Thursday and verified that no activities related to the
production of uranium fuel were taking place.
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Laptop Computer "The IAEA went to Natanz and, among other things, verified the
suspension," a Western diplomat familiar with the IAEA's
investigation of Iran said on condition of anonymity.
Washington and its EU allies say it is time the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency sent Iran's case to the U.N. Security Council, which could eventually decide to impose sanctions on Iran. China has demurred, saying it would like talks between Iran and the EU trio to resume, but has not said it will try to block any move to report Iran to the Council. Russia, while sharing China's opposition to U.N. sanctions on Iran, has moved closer to the West's view on referral.
Desktop Computer The agency was expected to inform the IAEA's 35-member board of
governors at next week's quarterly meeting that Iran had kept its
promise about freezing sensitive work at Natanz and elswhere,
diplomats said.
Notebooks Tehran has frozen its enrichment programme, which could produce
fuel for nuclear power plants or weapons, under a November deal
with France, Britain and Germany, which have offered Iran
incentives to halt and dismantle the programme.
Lenovo The European trio shares Washington's suspicions that Iran is
trying to develop nuclear weapons and determined to prevent Tehran
from mastering the science of enriching uranium.
Hard Drive Iran, which says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes
only, has said the freeze at Natanz and elsewhere would last only
until the end of July, when the European Union trio has promised to
give Iran a detailed package of incentives.
Travelstar However, the EU has said that resuming enrichment at Natanz,
which is still under construction, would prompt it to back U.S.
calls to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible
sanctions.
Gateway ACCESS PROBLEMS?
Laptop Parts One diplomat with access to Iran's nuclear programme said the
inspection team ran into problems when it tried to visit one
facility at the 450-hectare (1,110-acre) Natanz site because the
Iranians refused to grant the inspectors access.
Software "The team that got to Natanz is having a lot of trouble there,"
a diplomat told Reuters on Thursday night.
Hard Drives "The Iranians are very strictly limiting their
access."
Electronics The problem related to one specific facility at the site and,
after a delay of several hours, the situation was resolved and the
team was let in, the diplomats said.
Canon During the IAEA's
two-year investigation of Iran's
nuclear programme,
members of the board of
governors have criticised Iran for not showing full transparency
or granting complete and immediate access to sites.
Desktop Pc Diplomats said the brief delay raised concerns that Iran might
have something to hide there, but an IAEA official said that in
general the agency was getting all the access it needed.
Desktop Computers "There are no problems with access at Natanz," an IAEA official
said on condition of anonymity.
Think Pad Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy
Organisation, confirmed that IAEA inspectors had visited Natanz but
denied that there were access problems.
Repair "They have visited wherever they have requested in Natanz
facility and their inspections there are finished," he said.
Data Recovery Earlier this week, diplomats familiar with Iran's programme said
Iran had stuck to the letter of its suspension agreement with the
EU but had quietly continued construction work at Natanz to prepare
for when they might want to resume enrichment.
Cisco Reporters taken on a tour of Natanz by government officials in
March said it was more than 18 metres underground and surrounded by
at least 10 anti-aircraft batteries -- ostensibly in case of U.S.
or Israeli airstrikes.
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