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UN sees no sign of Iran nuke bomb plans - diplomats

IRNA

Tehran, Nov 10, IRNA -- The UN nuclear watchdog will say in a new 
report that it has found no signs of a secret atomic weapons program 
in Iran, diplomats said on Monday. 
"They don`t have any indications of a weapons program," a Western 
diplomat, who follows the UN`s International Atomic Energy Agency 
(IAEA) closely, told Reuters. 
In Moscow, Iran told Russia it was temporarily suspending its 
disputed uranium enrichment program from Monday and was giving a 
letter to the IAEA agreeing to sign a more intrusive inspection regime
under the Additional Protocol. 
"I officially announce that today we are giving to the IAEA a 
letter agreeing with the additional protocol. From today we are 
temporarily suspending our process of uranium enrichment," Hassan 
Rowhani, head of Iran`s Supreme National Security Council, told 
Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
The latest findings of IAEA inspectors will be detailed in a 
report on Iran that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei will send out to 
diplomats on the 35-nation Board of Governors this week. 
The board will discuss the new report on November 20, when 
Washington will be pushing for the board to declare that Iran violated
its NPT obligations. 
But one diplomat said Washington had little chance of getting the 
board to declare Iran in non-compliance with the NPT at this month`s 
meeting. 
Such a finding would require reporting Iran to the UN Security 
Council, which has the right to impose sanctions. 
Diplomats said since Iran has complied with a deal made last month
with France, Germany and Britain, the US was isolated, and there was 
little chance other European Union members on the IAEA board would 
support a non-compliance verdict against Iran. 
On October 21, Iranian officials told the foreign ministers of 
Germany, France and Britain that Tehran would not only sign the 
Additional Protocol permitting tougher inspections, but would 
temporarily stop enriching uranium to build confidence. 
Enrichment is a process of purifying uranium to make it usable as 
nuclear fuel or in weapons 
/AH/210 
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