02-09-2007, 04:33 PM
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IAEA suspends Iran aid projects
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The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says it has frozen almost half its technical aid projects involving Iran.
The IAEA says its move is to comply with UN sanctions imposed on Tehran late last year over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
Twenty-two projects have been suspended, according to an IAEA report.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, is to meet EU diplomats at a forum in Germany on Saturday, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
European officials hope to hold informal talks with him on the nuclear stand-off at the top-level security conference in Munich.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6348973.stm
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Chronology of Key Events Related to the Implementation of IAEA Safeguards in Iran
Compiled by the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program (IONP) at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Updated: 16 June 2006
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In August 2002, an investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed serious questions about Iran's nuclear program. Since the IAEA discovery of an undeclared uranium enrichment program, the international organization has struggled to avert a crisis. Iran's government, however, has been intransigent, arguing that it has a right to peaceful nuclear technology under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). At the same time, Tehran has refused to fully cooperate with IAEA inspectors, thereby making it impossible for the Agency to verify Iran's claim that its nuclear program is of a purely peaceful nature. According to IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei in a January 12, 2006, interview with Newsweek: "For the last three years we have been doing intensive verification in Iran, and even after three years I am not yet in a position to make a judgment on the peaceful nature of the [nuclear] program."
In a move that has brought this issue to a head, on January 10, 2006, Iran removed IAEA seals on its enrichment-related equipment at its research facility in Natanz. The removal of the seals threw into disarray the negotiations between the European Three (France, Germany and the United Kingdom, also known as the EU-3) and the Iranian government aimed at averting a crisis on Tehran's nuclear program. Tehran's January 10 actions led the Europeans to join the United States in a call to have the IAEA refer Iran to the Security Council when the nuclear agency met during a special session in February 2006
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http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/060120.htm
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