IAEA to inspect new Iranian nuclear site Oct 25

October 4th, 2009 UN watchdog sets Oct. 25 for Iran inspectionTEHRAN, Iran — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog on Sunday said inspectors would be examining Iran's recently revealed nuclear facility on Oct.

October 3rd, 2009 TEHRAN - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Iran Saturday for talks with Iranian officials over Tehran's nuclear programme, Iran's state radio reported. During his stay in Iran, ElBaradei will meet Iranian officials and discuss Iran's nuclear programme with them, the report said.

October 1st, 2009 IAEA says chief ElBaradei to visit Iran soonGENEVA — The International Atomic Energy Agency says its director will visit Iran to discuss issues related to the country's nuclear program. An IAEA statement says Mohamed ElBaradei was "invited to Tehran by Iranian authorities.

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 TEHRAN - The head of Iran's Atomic Organization said Saturday that agreements have been made with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the new uranium-enrichment plant near Tehran. "Considering the suitable cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, there will be an inspection of the new plant in due time," Ali-Akbar Salehi told state television without giving a precise date.

September 26th, 2009 Iran to allow IAEA visit nuclear siteTEHRAN, Iran — Iran will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect a newly revealed and still unfinished uranium enrichment facility, the country's nuclear chief told state television Saturday.

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 15th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has settled all its nuclear issues with the UN nuclear watchdog, so there was no need to review the issues in talks with world powers, a senior Iranian nuclear official said Tuesday. Deputy chief nuclear negotiator Ali Baqeri said that there had been some remaining issues which Iran has settled with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and hence removed all IAEA concerns and reaffirmed the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear projects.

September 9th, 2009 VIENNA - There was a "high probability" that Iran worked to develop nuclear weapons in the past, if intelligence information in that regard is genuine, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday in Vienna. ElBaradei was referring to documents received by his organisation that points to a number of suspicious Iranian studies, including the modification of the model of a missile to carry a nuclear warhead.

September 2nd, 2009 VIENNA - Outgoing International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei has called the Iranian nuclear threat "hyped," saying there is no proof of the Islamic republic soon having nuclear weapons. "In many ways, I think the threat has been hyped," ElBaradei told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in an interview released Tuesday.

June 18th, 2009 VIENNA - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei lashed out at Israel Thursday over its lack of cooperation in uncovering the truth about an alleged nuclear reactor in Syria. Israel bombed the suspected al-Kibar nuclear site in 2007 without first informing the IAEA.

May 16th, 2009 BERLIN - Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has warned that any Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a great mistake. 'It would be utterly mad to attack Iran.

March 10th, 2009 VIENNA - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Monday for Arab countries to help resolve the Iranian nuclear spat, which seems more achievable under the new US administration. 'The neighbours so far have been sitting on the fence,' he said during a speech in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, hosted by the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and International Relations.

February 6th, 2009 BERLIN - Iran has reiterated that it will continue cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in resolving the country's nuclear controversy, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. 'The bilateral coperation between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog will proceed based on earlier agreed modalities,' Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said after meeting with the IAEA chief, Mohammad ElBaradei, on the sidelines of the 45th Munich Security Conference.