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Iran: Tehran Wants Technology in Exchange for Additional Protocol Iranian officials want other countries to share civilian nuclear technology if Tehran agrees to sign the Additional Protocol to its nuclear safeguards agreement, which would allow greater international oversight of Iran’s nuclear activities, the Financial Times reported today (see GSN, Aug. 19). Iran wants to “add pages” to the proposed protocol that would direct the International Atomic Energy Agency to push other countries to provide nuclear assistance, according to Hossein Afarideh, the head of the Iranian parliament’s energy commission. Iran is also looking for a clause in the protocol that would prevent inspectors from visiting religious shrines or the homes of top officials. “Iranians have bad memories of what happened in Iraq,” said an Iranian official. “There’s a feeling that the Americans would use the protocol to create a crisis, by demanding that the inspectors go to the leader’s house,” the official added (Bozorgmehr/Khalaf, Financial Times, Aug. 20).
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