Vienna, Nov 06: Iran has given the UN nuclear watchdog drawings of the components used to make centrifuges which the united states claims were used to make weapons-grade uranium, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA said today. Ali Akbar Salehi told news agencies that this was part of Iran's continuing cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to disprove allegations it is trying to secretly develop nuclear weapons.
Tehran faces the possibility the IAEA will judge it at a meeting in Vienna on November 20 to be in non-compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and send the issue to the UN Security Council, which could then impose sanctions.

The main dispute is over traces of highly enriched uranium IAEA inspectors found at two sites in Iran.

The United States claims that Iran was using centrifuges to make highly enriched uranium that could be used to make the bomb, but the Iranians claim the particles came from contamination from equipment they bought aboard.


Salehi said IAEA inspectors have been able to see this equipment. He said Iran had recently "revealed to the inspectors the components (used to make the centrifuges) and the original drawings for these components."
Bureau Report