Seeking Agreement Before Baghdad Talks
IAEA Director Youkiya Amano flies to Tehran today for talks with
Iran’s foreign minister, chief nuclear negotiator and other senior leaders on
Monday. IAEA is seeking to expand its current agreement with Iran to allow
unscheduled visits to the sites suspected of being centers for nuclear weapon
research and development, specially Parchin military cmplex. Reuters is
reporting that Amano wants to seal the deal on Monday, two days prior to an
all-important meeting the six world powers and Iran in Baghdad. Such agreement
will significantly influence the direction of the upcoming talks, and could be a potential
breakthrough in the decade-old dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
Referring to suspicions about the existence of a military dimension to
the country’s nuclear program, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on
Saturday that Amano’s visit could help “clear up the ambiguities.”
"We regard the visit by the agency's director general as a
gesture of goodwill," said Salehi, adding that he hoped for agreement on a
"new modality" to work with IAEA to “clear up the ambiguities"
[ISNA/Reuters].
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