Iran is ready to give the International Atomic Energy Agency "full supervision" of its nuclear program for five years if U.N. sanctions are lifted, its nuclear chief said in remarks published Monday.
Iran
is
ready to give the International Atomic Energy Agency "full
supervision" of its nuclear program for five years if U.N. sanctions are
lifted, its nuclear chief said in remarks published Monday.
"We have proposed that the agency keep
Iran
's
activities and nuclear program under full supervision for five years, providing
the sanctions are lifted," the nuclear chief, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani,
told ISNA news agency.
Iran
is
targeted by four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions over its refusal to
suspend uranium enrichment amid fears in the West that it seeks to build a
nuclear bomb--a charge it vehemently denies.
Abbasi Davani neither said when the offer was made to the IAEA, nor what he
meant by "full supervision."
Much of
Iran
's
nuclear activities are already under the control of the IAEA, including uranium
enrichment--a process that can both produce the fuel for a nuclear reactor and
the fissile material for an atomic warhead.
The IAEA said in a confidential report that it is "increasingly concerned
about the possible existence in
Iran
of
past or undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related
organizations."
These included "activities related to the development of a nuclear payload
for a missile", according to the report, which is due to be discussed by
the IAEA's 35-member board of governors at a Sept. 12-16 meeting.
But Abbasi Davani said such allegations are "baseless and
fabricated."
The agency has for years criticized
Tehran
for
refusing to answer a number of questions about its nuclear program, and for
denying access to certain sites, including the heavy water reactor
Iran
is
building in the central city of
Arak
.
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