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Iran allows IAEA to supervise new uranium plant
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's nuclear chief said on Saturday that Tehran will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the United Nations atomic watchdog as Israel said Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons and demanded an "unequivocal" Western response. "This site will be under the supervision of the IAEA and will have a maximum of five percent (uranium) enrichment capacity," Ali Akbar Salehi said on state television, adding the plant is "not an industrial scale" unit. He said the plant is being set up as a "precautionary measure in case of an unwanted incident against our nuclear program." Salehi said Iran's nuclear installations are facing "threats every day" and so Tehran "had to take measures to disperse its installations." Earlier on Saturday Salehi said Tehran will fix a date for IAEA inspectors to visit the new plant, located south of the capital. "As the president said, we have no problem for inspection within the framework of the agency regulations," Salehi said, in an earlier appearance on state television. Salehi said the new plant is located on the road between Tehran and the holy city of Qom. Posted by: Fred 2009-09-27 |
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