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Iran will allow atomic checks if UN drops case
 Iran said on Saturday that it was willing to resume allowing snap UN atomic inspections if its case were dropped by the UN Security Council and passed back to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said that Iran would not yield to UN demands that it abandon uranium enrichment, and criticised Friday's report by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA. ElBaradei said that UN checks in Iran had been hampered and Tehran had rebuffed requests to stop making nuclear fuel."The report was not completely satisfactory for us and we believe that the report could have been done better than that," Saeedi told state television. However, Saeedi insisted that Iran would be able to answer ElBaradei's concerns about the access granted to UN inspectors if Tehran's nuclear dossier were dropped by the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions. "If the case returns to the agency again, we will begin the section that concerns the Additional Protocol," he said. "The enrichment will continue. But we will continue implementing the Additional Protocol as a voluntary measure." The Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty allows short-notice inspections of nuclear facilities. Posted by: Fred 2006-04-30 |
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