Tehran decides to freeze all its nuclear program
MIL, Nov 27, 2004. Special Correspondent
Iran finally decided and greed to freeze all its nuclear program on Friday and dropped its insistence that its 20 uranium enrichment activities should be exempted from a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency. IAEA cameras instead of being sealed would monitor the centrifuges, which are crucial to the enrichment process, which Iran has agreed.
The new decision would end Iran's controversy over its nuclear program. The meeting of the IAEA board, which to be held on Friday, shall now be held on Monday.
Under the compromise, according to Guardian, Tehran dropped its condition that 20 centrifuges be exempted from the freeze. The deal is unlikely to end the controversy over Iran's nuclear program. Although the meeting of the IAEA board had been expected to end last night, officials decided to reconvene on Monday to agree a formula on Iran.
European and Iranian officials spent hours behind closed doors yesterday, haggling over the wording of a board resolution. The initial version drafted by Britain, Germany and France was tough on Iran, following an agreement between Tehran and the EU troika three weeks ago under which Iran pledged to freeze its enrichment activities.
But a revised draft negotiated yesterday watered down the most contentious passages and was less demanding of the Iranians. This is unlikely to satisfy the US, which is confident the EU-Iran pact will collapse according to the report of Guardian.
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