Iran nuke inspections to resume

[demdave]

IRAN'S top nuclear negotiator today said Tehran will allow international nuclear inspections to resume unconditionally later this month - in the first official statement from Iran that it has backed off from a threat to freeze out UN inspectors.

Hasan Rowhani, on a three-day visit in Japan, was responding to a weekend announcement by the head of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, that Iran was ready to allow inspectors back into the country starting March 27.

"It is certain. And it will be without any conditions," Rowhani said during a news conference in Tokyo.

Iran had said Saturday that it was indefinitely shutting out IAEA inspectors, after the agency's 35-nation governing board adopted a resolution that said it "deplores" recent discoveries of uranium enrichment equipment and other suspicious activities that Iran had failed to reveal.



http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8991485%255E1702,00.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Hmmm, reading the rest of the article, it's more of a challange to the US

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to present to the IAEA any evidence it has to back its suspicions.

"He said Washington should present to the IAEA any evidence it has to back its suspicions.

"Then we want inspectors to come and check," Rowhani said."
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So the way I read that is

that they will let the inspectors back in ONLY if the USA shows some REAL evidence? :shrug:

That could be a problem for the US I think.

The USA has been saying for YEARS that "we have evidence, but we can't show you" . . .

MORE from the Article:

"Iran is working on nuclear development for peaceful uses. Iran has never wanted to create any nuclear weapons and does not intend to do so," said Rowhani, who also heads Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

While Tehran insists its nuclear activities are for the generation of electricity, Washington suspects it has a secret program to build nuclear weapons and had called for even harsher language in the agency's resolution.

Asked about the allegations, Rowhani said: "The United States has made many groundless statements."
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"The United States has made many groundless statements."

NOOOOoooooo - tell me that isn't true!