[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran is entering talks with six world powers this week with good intentions, the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator said Wednesday even as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Tehran broke a transparency law.Saeed Jalili's comments, echoing those by other Iranian officials in the run-up a one-day meeting in Geneva Thursday -- described the meeting as an "opportunity and a test" for the world powers.
But director Mohamed ElBaradei said in a televised interview Iran broke a U.N. transparency law by failing to disclose much earlier a nuclear plant being built for uranium enrichment, agency.
Iran reported the site to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sept. 21. Western powers said Tehran was forced to do so after learning they were about to discover a plant whose construction began 3-1/2 years ago.
"We are entering the talks with a good will," Jalili said on Wednesday at Tehran's international Imam Khomeini airport. He is secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
Western diplomatic sources have said the newly disclosed plant was hidden inside a mountainside on a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards base near the Shiite holy city of Qom. It heightened suspicions of a covert Iranian aim to develop atomic bombs, they said.