Iran punishing itself by delaying inspection: IAEA
AFP, Vienna
Iran is punishing itself by delaying international inspections since this will prolong the UN nuclear watchdog's investigation of Tehran's atomic programme, the watchdog's head Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday. He said the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) discovery in January of designs for sophisticated P2 centrifuges in Iran for making highly enriched uranium (HEU) that could be used to make the bomb was "a setback, a great setback" since Iran had claimed in October to have fully disclosed its nuclear activities. This led to a tough resolution against Iran at an IAEA board of governors meeting on Saturday in Vienna. And that drew Iran's ire and led Tehran to suspend inspections that had been scheduled for last week.
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