A senior Iranian official said on Thursday that delegates from
both Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were
satisfied with the results of their new round of talks on Tehran's
nuclear program, state broadcasting reported.
"The Iranian delegation and the IAEA delegation expressed
satisfaction on the trend of talks on the issues of P-1 and P-2
(centrifuges)," deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council Javad Vaeedi was quoted as saying.
Deputy head of Iran's Supreme
National Security Council Javad Vaeedi (C) meets with Olli
Heinonen, deputy director general of the IAEA in Tehran, October
29, 2007. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
His remarks came after Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog ended
here a new round of negotiations aimed at clearing up suspicions
about Tehran's atomic activities.
"The head of the IAEA delegation (Olli Heinonen) and other
experts brought up all their ambiguities and questions during the
talks," said Vaeedi, who was also the head of the Iranian
delegation.
Iranian top Iranian nuclear
negotiator, Javad Vaeedi (2nd left) attends in a meeting with
deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) Olli Heinonen, right, in Tehran, Iran, on Monday October 29,
2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
"The Iranian side gave all the necessary answers to address
their questions," Vaeedi said.
However, Heinonen, deputy director general of the IAEA, was not
quoted as making any comments after the talks, according to the
report.
Top officials from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran on
Monday for the latest round of nuclear talks over Iran's P-1 and
P-2 centrifuges.
Olli Heinonen, deputy director of
the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks with
Javad Vaeedi (L), Iran's deputy nuclear negotiator in Tehran
October 29, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
"We have done many things so far but there remains a lot of
other work that hopefully will be resolved," Heinonen was quoted by
Iran's state media as saying upon his arrival at the airport on
Monday.
The talks were crucial since the result of them could be basis
for a report over the status of the Iranian uranium enrichment
program by the IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei by the end of
November.
The United States and some other Western countries fear Iran may
try to develop atomic bombs under a civilian cover, however Tehran
insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
The UN Security Council has already issued two sanction
resolutions against Iran's nuclear program since last December, but
both of them failed to persuade the Islamic Republic to give up
uranium enrichment work.
Washington now is trying to push the UN Security Council to
adopt a third resolution against Tehran's defiance, but Iran's
cooperation with the IAEA and the EU in the past months has let
other world powers agree to wait ElBaradei's report until November
to make their decision.
(Xinhua News Agency November 2, 2007)
