Two IAEA inspectors denied entry into Iran
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Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Monday that Iran has banned two IAEA inspectors from visiting its nuclear facilities because they filed false information on the country's nuclear program, the ISNA news agency reported.
Referring to the recent International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Ali Akbar Salehi said "two inspectors of the IAEA presented false reports on Iran's nuclear activities, so based on safeguards agreement, we called for banning their arrival in Iran for inspection, since they have also disclosed information before it had been examined officially and they had provided media with false information on Iran's nuclear work," said the report.
"In the last session of the IAEA Board of Governors meeting, we voiced our objection to the incorrect report of the two inspectors. The report was unreal in its entirety," Salehi was quoted as saying by local satellite Press TV.
"The Islamic Republic has asked the IAEA to assign two new officials for further inspections of the country's nuclear facilities," Salehi said, adding "inspections will be conducted based exactly on the nuclear safeguard agreement signed between Iran and the IAEA."
Salehi further stressed Iran's commitment to the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty, saying "Tehran will not demand anything beyond its legal rights but will not give up its rights (either)," according to Press TV.
Concerning Iran's plan to build a more powerful reactor, Salehi said "we have been working on making a reactor similar to Tehran research reactor, the reactor is a 'water pool reactor' in which fuel plates are put for production of radioactive medicines," said ISNA.
Salehi said on June 16 that Iran will build another nuclear reactor for research use, which is designed to be "more powerful" than the Tehran reactor.
On June 9, the UN Security Council voted to impose a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, which the West suspects aims at developing nuclear weapons, a charge resolutely denied by Tehran.
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