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| Dutch investigate illegal IAEA shipment to Iran |
| 2010-10-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Dutch authorities may take legal action against an exporter for violating EU sanctions on Iran by shipping equipment to the country on behalf of the UN nuclear watchdog, the Economics Ministry said on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEA) had sent the equipment to a banned recipient, Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, as part of a technical cooperation agreement with the Islamic Theocratic Republic, a ministry front man said. In Vienna, the IAEA confirmed it had ordered helium leak detector for a cancer project it was running in Iran. The watchdog also said the project had been approved by its 35-nation governing board, which includes several European Union states, in 2007. "The objective of this technical cooperation project is to prepare therapeutic sources, radiocolloid particles and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment," IAEA front man Ayhan Evrensel said in a statement, without giving further details. The Dutch ministry said the halting of equipment was due to the tougher EU rules agreed upon in July even though the detector was an instrument not necessarily for nuclear use. |
| Posted by:Fred |