April 13, 2008
Iran to Inform IAEA
about Future Nuclear Programmes
Tehran/Vienna
Iran is to inform the head of the UN nuclear watchdog chief in
Vienna about its future nuclear programmes, a senior Iranian nuclear
official told state television Saturday.
Diplomats in the Austrian capital confirmed that Iran's Vice
President and head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation,
Gholamreza Aghazadeh, would go Monday to Vienna for talks with
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei.
Aqazadeh's deputy, Mohammad Saeidi, told state TV that the meeting
will be held at the request of both sides and was aimed at
clarifying Iran's future nuclear programmes, including use of higher
speed centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
Saeidi said that the IAEA had been informed in advance of the
installation of the new 6,000 centrifuges last Tuesday but refrained
to say whether the issue would be on the agenda of the Vienna talks
as well.
The deputy of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation added that IAEA
inspections would continue in the future, but pointed out that as
all ambiguities over Iran's nuclear projects have already been
cleared, the new inspections would just have a "routine nature".
On the occasion of the so-called "National Day of Nuclear
Achievement" last Tuesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed
start of installation of 6,000 new centrifuges which are, according
to Saeidi, P1 and not the advanced and faster P2 centrifuges.
Ahmadinejad had however said "new devices" would be tested and ready
within three months. He claimed that the new devices would be "five
times" as fast as the previous ones but gave no details.
Saeidi said that incentives by world powers for persuading Iran to
suspend its uranium enrichment programme would eventually not work
and called on the five UN veto powers plus Germany to adopt "more
rational policies" and acknowledge Iran's technical achievements and
peaceful nature of its atomic projects.
Ahmadinejad Wednesday rejected once again international demands from
Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programmes and said no world
power could stop Iran's nuclear drive.
Iran insists on pursuing its civil nuclear programme despite Western
doubts about the peaceful nature of the projects and wants to
install at least 54,000 enrichment centrifuges for achieving its own
nuclear fuel cycle.
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