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Iran pleased with IAEA report

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, June 14, IRNA -- Tehran on Monday voiced pleasure with a 
report by the UN nuclear watchdog Chief Mohamed ElBaradei that major 
and decisive steps have been taken for resolving of outstanding 
questions regarding Iran`s nuclear program. 
Commenting on ElBaradei`s report to June 2004 meeting of the Board
of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran 
said the present verification activities going beyond the safeguards 
agreement and the Additional Protocol, represents an important 
achievement for both Iran and the IAEA. 
"It needs to be borne in mind that lack of identified or known 
criteria or timelines, on the basis of which Iran could organize 
itself for robust inspections, has required Iran to provide 
information or to grant access primarily after requests were made by 
the Agency." 
The explanatory report said that however in the spirit of 
cooperation and as confirmed in the report of the IEAE Director 
General, action has been taken to satisfy the requests of the 
Agency in the fullest and most speedy manner possible. 
The report said over 670 person-days of inspections have been 
carried out in Iran since February 2003, amounting to one of the 
most robust and intrusive verifications in the history of the Agency. 
It said in spirit of the fact that the complementary access 
envisaged in Article four of the Additional Protocol could legally 
be granted only after the declarations have been submitted to the 
gency. Iran has voluntarily granted 12 complementary accesses even 
prior to the submission of its declarations, most of which with two 
hour notice or even less. 
The report said all contaminations have been caused by foreign 
imported components and the information and explanations provided by 
Iran on the other major outstanding issue, that is the P2 centrifuge 
program, have been full and consistent and all have not in any case 
involved changing or contradictory information. 
It said Iran`s account of the laser enrichment program has been 
orrect and consistent and through full transparency and cooperation 
by the country since October 2003 coupled with intensive and robust 
verification by the Agency, there is now sufficient confirmation to 
enable the Agency to begin a normal process of verification in 
accordance with the normal implementation of the Additional protocol 
in a technical and not political environment. 
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