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| Ali-Akbar Salehi ( L), the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shakes hands with Yukiya Amano (2nd, R), the visiting chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 11, 2013. According to an agreement between Iran and the IAEA here on Monday, Iran will allow the UN nuclear watchdog's inspectors to visit Arak heavy water plant and Gachin yellow cake mine. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz) |
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TEHRAN, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- According to an agreement between Iran and the IAEA here on Monday, Iran will allow the UN nuclear watchdog's inspectors to visit Arak heavy water plant and Gachin yellow cake mine.
The agreement was signed by Ali-Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Yukiya Amano, the visiting chief of the IAEA, or International Atomic Energy Agency.
Salehi said the agreement "is a roadmap which clarifies the mutual steps to resolve the remaining issues" pertaining to the IAEA's questions on Iran's nuclear activities.
In the agreement, Iran announced its readiness to "voluntarily let the IAEA inspectors visit the Arak heavy water plant as well as the Bandar Abbas Gachin mine" in the south of the country, said Salehi.
"This shows Iran's flexibility (in its efforts) to close its case with the IAEA and to bar all the excuses used by some to hinder the progress of the work (nuclear issue)," Salehi added.
Amano said: "On the basis of this agreement between Iran and the IAEA, more cooperation will be done to reveal the truth and much serious work is required to be carried out in a three-month time, which begins from today."
"In this agreement, some points are not mentioned which had been referred to in our previous reports, and I emphasize that the agency will resolve the remaining issues with high spirit and through cooperation," added Amano.
The cooperation within the framework should be completed in a three-month period, he emphasized.
Amano arrived in Tehran Monday for talks with Iran after the Islamic republic and six world powers failed to reach an agreement in their talks in Geneva on the weekend.
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