IAEA team back from Iran inspection

The West believes Iran revealed the site’s existence only because it had learned that the US and its allies were about to make it public. Iran denies that.

Tehran says it wants to enrich uranium only to make nuclear fuel. But the West worries that Iran wants to create fissile warhead material.

“We had a good trip,” said Herman Nackaerts,who headed the International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team. “We visited the Fordo enrichment plant.”

Nackaerts said the nuclear agency planned to analyze the data,adding that IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei would “then report in good time” on the results.

The team’s findings will be presented as part of a report to the IAEA’s 35-nation governing board. Beyond that,ElBaradei is expected to brief the six world powers engaging Iran in attempts to persuade it to freeze enrichment.