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UN nuclear team in Iran for
new talks: state media
AFP
Sunday December 9, 2007
A delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived
in Tehran on Sunday to tackle a new subject in ongoing talks over
the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, the IRNA news agency
reported.
The talks will broach the issue of uranium particle contamination
at a technical university in Tehran, the third subject to be examined
in the continuing discussions, the state-run agency said.
"An IAEA technical delegation arrived in Tehran on Sunday
for talks over the source of contamination in a technical college.
The talks with the Iranian side will start on Monday," it
said.
Iran has in recent months had several rounds of talks with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) focusing on outstanding
questions over its nuclear programme.
The two sides have already held discussions about Iran's past
experiments with plutonium and its use of uranium-enriching P1
and P2 centrifuges. The source of contamination represents the
latest chapter to be opened.
In August both sides agreed on a timetable for Iran to give more
information over various areas of ambiguity in its nuclear programme.
Despite four years of investigation, the IAEA has never been able
to confirm if the drive is peaceful.
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The Vienna-based watchdog said in a report last month that Iran
had taken important steps in revealing the extent of its nuclear
programme but was still defying UN demands that it suspend uranium
enrichment.
It said it had sent written questions to Iran on the contamination
issue on September 15 about the origin of the contamination, the
nature of the equipment used and the names of the equipment involved.
The IAEA visit comes a week after a US intelligence report said
Iran had halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003, contradicting
White House accusations that Tehran had an active atomic weapons
drive.
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