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Iran says it plans to sign an agreement Thursday allowing short-notice inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Iran says it plans to sign an agreement Thursday
allowing short-notice inspections of its nuclear
facilities.
http://www.voanews.com/PrintArticle.cfm?objectID=76C7540E-1360-40A9-99D83158BA6845E6&title=Iran%20to%20Sign%20Nuclear%20Inspection%20Protocol%20Thursday
VOA News
17 Dec 2003, 10:17 UTC
Iran's Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh made the
announcement in Tehran Wednesday. Mr. Aghazadeh is also
head of Iran's atomic energy agency.
Iran has come under heavy international pressure to
sign the additional protocol to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Western countries advised Iran that the step was needed
to dispel U.S. led concerns that Tehran was trying to
develop nuclear weapons.
Iran's government gave the formal go-ahead for the
signing last week. But the agreement could still face
opposition from Iran's Guardian Council, which must
approve it. The council is dominated by conservative
clerics, several of whom have spoken out against the
agreement in the past.
Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and
intended only for producing electricity. But in
October, it admitted to the International Atomic Energy
Agency that it had hidden certain activities from U.N.
nuclear inspectors for 18 years.
Iran has already signed the basic Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. But that treaty allows
experts from the U.N. nuclear agency to carry out
inspections only when after receiving permission ahead
of time.
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