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Iran Has Turned Over Centrifuge Details to International Nuclear Inspectors, Officials Say
Tehran has provided international nuclear inspectors with key information about its uranium enrichment centrifuge technology, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 31). Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Iran Friday, the Associated Press reported. “They demanded information in various fields especially about P-1 and P-2 centrifuges and we provided them,” said Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani. He added that the inspectors did not interview any senior Iranian nuclear officials. Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said Iran was cooperating with the inspectors. “The second round of the inspections has already started. We achieved remarkable progress during the past inspections. We hope the IAEA meeting in November will be a positive meeting,” said Saeedi (Associated Press/The Scotsman, Oct. 31). Larijani also said yesterday that his country is unconcerned that it may face sanctions or Western military action over its sensitive nuclear activities, Agence France-Presse reported. “They must understand that such an attitude will only persuade us more to have nuclear technology,” said Larijani. “There won’t be a war. They do not have the means to go to war on two fronts,” he said, referring to U.S. military involvement in neighboring Iraq. “If they think they can limit us by oil sanctions or other sanctions, they are wrong. Oil sanctions will only increase the price of oil,” he said (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, Oct. 31). Meanwhile, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recalled two senior Iranian diplomats, the Guardian reported today. Seyed Muhammad Hossein Adeli, Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and Muhammad Reza Alborzi, the ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, have been removed from their posts, according to Iranian and Western diplomatic sources. Alborzi was part of the Iranian delegation to Paris for nuclear negotiations earlier this year with France, Germany and the United Kingdom, according to the Guardian. Western diplomatic sources said the move was likely related to the negotiations. Ahmadinejad had criticized some Iranian diplomats for failing to adequately represent their country’s interests in the talks, the Guardian reported (Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, Nov. 1).
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