IAEA Report Said To Say Nuclear Work Still Ongoing In Iran

>>> Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to IAEA Board, Security Council

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has circulated his latest report to the upcoming meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report - submitted in parallel to the UN Security Council - covers developments since Dr. ElBaradei’s report of 14 November 2006.

The 35-member Board will consider the report at its next meetings beginning in Vienna 5 March. The report’s circulation is restricted and unless the IAEA Board decides otherwise it cannot be released to the public.

The report is in addition to the one on Iran and IAEA cooperation that the Director General circulated to the Board on 9 February in light of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 adopted 23 December 2006.
(Taken from a Staff Report by IAEA)

>>> Report on Iran Nuclear Safeguards Sent to Agency’s Board & UN Security Council

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei today released his report Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report was prepared at the request of the United Nation’s Security Council. Its circulation is restricted, and unless the IAEA Board of Governors and Security Council decide otherwise, the Agency can not authorise its release to the public.

On 23 December 2006 the Security Council requested “within 60 days a report from the Director General of the IAEA on whether Iran has established full and sustained suspension of all activities mentioned in this resolution, as well as on the process of Iranian compliance with all the steps required by the IAEA Board and with the other provisions of this resolution, to the IAEA Board of Governors and in parallel to the Security Council for its consideration.”

The report was simultaneously circulated to the Agency’s Member States and to the Security Council in New York this afternoon.
(Taken from Press Release #2007/04 by IAEA)
IAEA File Photo by D Calma

>>> ABC NEWSONLINE has this report. It goes in part like this... The United Nations nuclear watchdog says Iran had failed to meet a February 21 deadline to suspend enrichment of uranium, exposing Tehran to possible new sanctions over concerns it seeks to produce an atomic bomb... The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report Iran had installed two cascades, or networks, of 164 centrifuges in its underground Natanz enrichment plant with another two cascades close to completion... This amounted to an effort to escalate research-level enrichment of nuclear fuel into "industrial scale" production...
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