IAEA to inspect Iran’s new nuke plant: Official

October 4th, 2009 TEHRAN - Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Sunday in Tehran that the IAEA will inspect the newly revealed Iranian nuclear site Oct 25. The date was also confirmed by Iran's atomic chief Ali-Akbar Salehi.

October 3rd, 2009 TEHRAN - World powers including the US have realised there was no secrecy over the country's new uranium enrichment plant, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday. The official news agency IRNA quoted the president as saying that despite Western propaganda, it became clear that Iran was not keeping secrets over the new plant located south of Tehran, near the religious city of Qom.

October 1st, 2009 EU envoy: IAEA to visit nuke plant soonGENTHOD, Switzerland — A senior EU envoy says Iran has pledged to open its recently revealed uranium enrichment plant to U.N. inspectors perhaps in the next few weeks.

September 30th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi has revealed that one of its uranium enrichment facilities is inside a mountain next to a military site to ensure continuity of nuclear activities in case of an attack. Salehi also said that Iran is willing to have a general discussion about nuclear technology in Geneva but will not give up its right to uranium enrichment and conversion, CBS News reports.

September 26th, 2009 Iran to allow UN inspectors at its new nuke siteTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's nuclear chief says his country will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility.

September 26th, 2009 Sep 26 (DPA) Amid further international warnings over its nuclear enrichment plants, Iran Saturday again insisted it was doing nothing that went against global agreements. The head of the country's atomic organisation Ali-Akbar Salehi said Iran had agreed to let the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspect the new uranium enrichment plant near Tehran.

September 25th, 2009 Obama: Iran has secret nuclear facilityPITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain will demand Friday that Iran open to international inspectors a secret nuclear facility it has tried to hide from the world for years, a senior White House official told The Associated Press. The three leaders — Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy — will open the G-20 economic summit with their demand that Tehran allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the facility for producing nuclear fuel, officials said.

September 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has reportedly disclosed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei. The information was reportedly announced in a letter sent to him.

September 25th, 2009 VIENNA - Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it is constructing a second, so far unknown uranium-enrichment facility, diplomats in Vienna said Friday. Until now the international community was only aware of the operating enrichment plant in Natanz, which some countries fear could one day be used to make material for nuclear arms.

September 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday denounced Western reaction to news that Tehran was building a second uranium enrichment plant and said Iran had complied with all international regulation. Ahmadinejad told reporters in New York that he was surprised by the reaction because Iran had gone beyond its obligations by informing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the plant.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's claim that Iran's short- and medium-range missiles posed the highest risk may come under question following an IAEA report warning that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry it. Within hours of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates announcing that they were shelving plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe because of Iran's shift in strategy, IAEA's confidential report revealed that Iran has "sufficient information" to build a bomb, Fox News reports.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan was elected to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Friday under the reserved seat for the Middle East and South Asia (MESA), the Online news agency reported. The decision was taken at the ongoing IAEA General Conference in Vienna Sep 14-18.

June 15th, 2009 VIENNA - Diplomats gathered in Vienna Monday for a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the stalemate with Iran over its nuclear programme - just days after Iran's hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Iran has ignored recent UN Security Council resolutions intended to get the country to halt its controversial uranium enrichment programme.

February 26th, 2009 BUSHEHR - Russia has completed the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and is launching start-up operations, the head of Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom said Wednesday. The plant in south Iran, which Russia undertook to finish as part of a 1998 contract, was originally scheduled to go on line at the end of 2006, but the date has been pushed back several times.

February 14th, 2009 ALGIERS - The head of the UN atomic energy watchdog IAEA said Iran has not produced any atomic bombs although it has the capability of making one, IRNA reported. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ElBaradei made the remarks while addressing a seminar at the Cairo American University.