Vienna, Oct 22: The UN nuclear watchdog expects Iran in the coming days to give a "complete declaration of all its past nuclear activities" following talks in Tehran with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany, IAEA chief Mohamed Elbaradei said today. Yielding to international demands for it to prove it is not developing nuclear weapons, Iran agreed to allow tougher inspections of its nuclear sites and to halt uranium enrichment.
Elbaradei said in a statement he "hopes and expects that in the next few days Iran will deliver to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) a complete declaration of all its past nuclear activities and an official notification of its readiness to conclude an additional protocol" to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on the snap inspections. The IAEA chief described the outcome of talks in Tehran as "an encouraging sign toward clarifying all aspects of Iran's past nuclear program and regulating its future activities through verification". Elbaradei visited Tehran last week to press for Iran's cooperation ahead of a October 31 deadline set by the agency for the Islamic republic to prove it is not secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons.
A diplomat close to the IAEA said Iran was expected to hand over the information by the end of the week. Bureau Report