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Iran Agrees to Disclose Some Nuclear Information, but Refuses to Recognize IAEA Deadline Iran agreed this weekend to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency with information on the origin of some of its uranium enrichment technology, but Tehran does not consider itself bound by an Oct. 31 agency deadline, according to reports (see GSN, Oct. 3). “This date of Oct. 31 is not a criteria for us, because we have not accepted this resolution,” said Iranian IAEA representative Ali Akbar Salehi. “We will continue to cooperate with the IAEA and will try to make it so that the answers to outstanding issues will be given as quickly as possible,” he added. Senior IAEA officials are currently in Tehran urging Iranian leaders to adopt the Additional Protocol to Iran’s nuclear safeguards agreement, which would allow more intrusive monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities. “Up to now, everything is going well,” Salehi said of the discussions (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Oct. 5). “The train has started to move, and we have agreed to push the train to move faster,” Salehi said. “The two sides reached total agreement,” he added. Tehran has agreed to provide the agency with a list of imported nuclear equipment that Iranian officials say was exposed to uranium before Iran received it, the Associated Press reported. IAEA inspectors have twice discovered evidence of enriched uranium in Iran, but Tehran claims the traces were already present when Iran acquired the equipment (Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 5). “We will give them (the IAEA) a list of the items and we will show them where they were stored because they were stored in a number of places,” Salehi said. It was not clear, however, if IAEA officials would be told where the nuclear equipment originated. “These are items which were not bought officially, they were bought through intermediaries and it is not possible to trace intermediaries,” according to Salehi (Paul Hughes, Reuters/Wired News, Oct. 6). IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt, the most senior official on the trip, returned to Vienna recently as the first phase of the talks concluded but other agency officials remain in Tehran to continue the meetings (Jim Muir, BBC News, Oct. 4).
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