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TEHRAN, Aug. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran on Monday resumed
work in the uranium conversion facilities in the central city Isfahan shortly
after the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors arrived there, state television
reported.
"The uranium conversion facility in Isfahan has
started its activities under IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
supervision," Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation,
confirmed to reporters.
Earlier in the day, a team of inspectors of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived at the facilities and were
preparing to install surveillance equipment on the site.
"A team of inspectors of the IAEA are scheduled to
arrive in Isfahan on Monday, and after their extra surveillance equipment
isinstalled, we will resume the work there," Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters on Sunday.
Tehran had threatened to resume the highly sensitive
nuclear work since the end of July when it began to press the European Union
(EU) to present the promised nuclear proposal.
The European trio of Britain, France and Germany
submitted the nuclear proposal, urging Tehran to accept it and to withdraw from
the sensitive resumption, or to face a referral of the case to the UN Security
Council.
Iran, after scrutinies, termed the proposal as
unacceptable andvowed to resume the conversion work after the IAEA inspectors
would be in place. Enditem
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