Tehran, October 24: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are to arrive to Iran on Saturday to visit the country’s new uranium enrichment plant southwest of Tehran .
Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported that the IAEA inspectors will stay in Iran for two or three days.
On October 4, the IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that IAEA inspectors would visit Iran late October.
“I am pleased to say … we agreed that our inspectors would come here on the 25th of October to do the inspection,” ElBaradei told a press conference in the Iranian capital Tehran.
According to the Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, has allowed the inspectors to help UN nuclear watchdog make sure that there is no deviation in Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.
Iran announced the existence of Fordo nuclear plant 12 months earlier than the agency requirement for member states to inform the UN nuclear watchdog of new developments.
The Fordo uranium enrichment plant, which lies 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Tehran is currently under construction.
—–Agencies