Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Inspections of Iran's nuclear program will take longer than usual owing to the country's former policy of concealment, said IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei yesterday. In his opening speech to an IAEA Council of Governors meeting, he said: "The IAEA is presently not in a position to say that in Iran there are no undeclared nuclear materials and relevant activities." However, also according to the present stand of information, no declared nuclear materials had been rerouted for banned activities, said the general director, according to the text of his speech. El Baradei said progress had been made in two key areas, but they still had to be clarified. They were the origin of traces of enriched uranium which had been found in some installations, and the extent of Iranian efforts to import and use centrifuges of the P1 and P2 types. |