19-04-2024 12:34 PM Jerusalem Timing

UN Nuclear Inspectors Arrive in Iran

UN Nuclear Inspectors Arrive in Iran

A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived in Iran to visit two nuclear sites ahead of the next round of political talks with world powers next week

A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived in Iran to visit two nuclear sites ahead of the next round of political talks with world powers next week.
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After meeting officials from the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran on Monday the IAEA team will travel to Saghand uranium mine and the Ardakan yellow-cake production site, the official IRNA news agency said.
  
The facilities are located close together, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) from Tehran. The trip is in line with a seven-step plan agreed between Iran and the IAEA in February over Tehran's nuclear activities.
  
Behrouz Kamalvandi, Iran's atomic agency spokesman, told IRNA that "most of the seven-step procedural agreement between Iran and the IAEA has been implemented."

IAEA deputy director general Massimo Aparo is leading the delegation. The meeting on Monday is to discuss the Arak heavy water reactor, an Iranian official told IRNA.