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UN sees no sign of Iran nuke bomb plans
Reuters - World News
Nov 10, 2003



VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear watchdog will say in a new report that it has found no signs of a secret atomic weapons programme in Iran, diplomats said on Monday.

''They don't have any indications of a weapons programme,'' a Western diplomat, who follows the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) closely, told Reuters.

In Moscow, Iran told Russia it was temporarily suspending its disputed uranium enrichment programme from Monday and was giving a letter to the IAEA agreeing to sign a more intrusive inspection regime under the Additional Protocol.

''I officially announce that today we are giving to the IAEA a letter agreeing with the additional protocol. From today we are temporarily suspending our process of uranium enrichment,'' Hassan Rohani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The United States, which labeled Iran a member of an ''axis of evil'' with North Korea and pre-war Iraq, accuses Iran of using its nuclear energy programme as a front for developing an atomic weapon. Tehran vehemently denies this accusation.

The latest findings of IAEA inspectors will be detailed in a report on Iran that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei will send out to diplomats on the 35-nation Board of Governors this week.

Another Western diplomat said: ''We are not expecting any serious omissions. But we are not expecting the new report to be conclusive. It will say that more work needs to be done to reach a conclusion on this and that.''

The board will discuss the report on November 20, when Washington will be pushing for the board to declare that Iran violated its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for hiding facilities and activities.

The diplomat said Washington had little chance of getting the board to declare Iran in non-compliance with the NPT at this month's meeting.

Such a finding would require reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council, which has the right to impose sanctions.

In a declaration to the IAEA on its nuclear programme before an October 31 deadline, Iran acknowledged not telling the United Nations about all its activities.

It said the omissions were of minor importance, concerning such things as ''small-scale lab works.''



As we can see,the UN pardons the regime ,just as it did with Iraq.
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