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| Iran lets UN inspect Arak reactor: diplomat |
| 2009-08-21 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site, a diplomat said Thursday. Iran has allowed inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the nuclear reactor at Arak for the first time in a year, the diplomat said. "The inspectors were able to visit Arak last week," the diplomat told AFP. "It was the first time that they had been authorized to do so for a year." IAEA spokesman Ayhan Evrensel refused to comment on the matter. Tehran had also allowed the U.N. nuclear weapons watchdog to step up surveillance of another key site at Natanz, said the diplomat. "The containment and surveillance measures were updated as the agency wanted," said the source. |
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