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The UN nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend tosign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume along-stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developingnuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday. The trip Sunday by International Atomic Energy Agency chief YukiyaAmano comes just four days ahead of a key meeting between six worldpowers and Iran where the six hope to wrest concessions from Tehranmeant to reduce concerns that it wants such arms. A satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and the Institute forScience and International Security shows the military complex atParchin, Iran, 30 kilometres southeast of Tehran. (DigitalGlobe/Institute for Science and International Security) An IAEA statement announcing the Sunday trip said only that Amanowould "discuss issues of mutual interest with high Iranianofficials" during his one-day visit, which will include a meetingwith Saeed Jalili. Iran's chief nuclear negotiator will alsorepresent his country at the meeting Wednesday in Baghdad with thesix world powers. But diplomats said the visit was scheduled to allow both sides toagree on an accord outlining the mechanics of IAEA access to sites,information and officials it seeks for its investigation intowhether Tehran secretly conducted nuclear weapons research anddevelopment. The diplomats demanded anonymity because their information wasconfidential. They cautioned that signing such a deal was only thefirst step, adding that its implementation was the true test ofIranian willingness to end more than four years of refusing to workwith the IAEA probe after some initial co-operation. Flight to Iran suggests deal is ready Still, if Iran does abide by such a deal and give the IAEA theaccess it seeks, that could result in putting to rest the disputeover whether the Islamic Republic hid such work from the rest ofthe world. A second round of talks on the issue had been scheduled in Viennaafter an Iran-IAEA meeting last week in the Austrian capital, andthe surprise announcement that Amano would instead be flying toTehran strongly suggested that a deal was ready to be signed. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted Iran's nuclearambitions are peaceful. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press) Iran agreed to answer questions on the allegations in August 2007,but after several months of co-operation declared the issue closed,saying it had fulfilled its commitments and accusing the agency ofgoing beyond its mandate in pushing for more information. Since then, Iran has blocked the IAEA investigation, insisting itsnuclear program is peaceful. Tehran could point to any deal reached with Amano as proof of itswillingness to compromise and demand that the six the UnitedStates, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany in returntemper demands that Iran end higher-level enrichment of uranium. Provoked international sanctions Iran says it is enriching only to create nuclear fuel, but itscritics fear it will use the technology to arm warheads. Itsrefusal to halt enrichment has provoked UN and other sanctions,including U.S. and European Union penalties meant to cripple its oil exports its main revenue source that are to fully take effect in afew weeks. While the six powers publicly continue to insist that Iran heed UNSecurity Council demands and stop all enrichment, diplomats havesaid they now are ready to accept Tehran's right to makelow-enriched uranium for energy if it stops producing uraniumenriched to higher levels of 20 per cent, which could be turnedquickly into fissile warhead material. Allegations of secret work on developing nuclear weapons havecompounded concerns over Iran's enrichment activities, with theIAEA saying for the first time in November that Iran is suspectedof conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose is thedevelopment of nuclear arms. In a report, it outlined suspected Iranian work on high-explosivestesting and detonator development to set off a nuclear charge, aswell as computer modeling of a core of a nuclear warhead. It alsocited apparent preparatory work for a nuclear weapons test, anddevelopment of a nuclear payload for Iran's Shahab 3 intermediaterange missile a weapon that can reach Israel. Some of the information was new, including evidence of a large metal chamber at Iran's Parchin military site for nuclear-related explosives testing. Diplomats in recentweeks have said that satellite photos show an apparent clean-up atthat site, ahead of any possible IAEA visit a charge Irandenies. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as GLOBAL Customers Projects , 5D Theater, and more. For more , please visit 3D Cinema System today!
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