http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran6jan06,1,6448155.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Iran to Let IAEA Enter Military Site
# U.N. nuclear inspectors may arrive 'within days' at Parchin complex,
which U.S. has alleged houses a secret atomic weapons program.
>From Associated Press
VIENNA — Iran has agreed to grant access to a military site the United
States says is linked to a secret nuclear weapons program, and the
first U.N. inspectors could arrive there "within days," International
Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview
Wednesday.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog group has been pressing Tehran for months
for access to the Parchin military complex, used to research, develop
and produce ammunition, missiles and high explosives.
In leaks to media last year, U.S. intelligence officials said that a
specially secured site within the Parchin complex, 20 miles southeast
of Tehran, was possibly being used in research on making
high-explosive components for use in nuclear weapons.
The agency has not found any firm evidence to challenge Iran's
assertions that it is not involved in nuclear weapon activities.
But an IAEA report in October expressed concern about published
intelligence and media reports "relating to dual use equipment and
materials which have applications … in the nuclear military area."
Diplomats accredited to the agency said that the phrasing alluded to
Parchin.
Iran has been the main focus of the IAEA since mid-2002, after
revelations of two secret nuclear facilities — a uranium enrichment
plant at Natanz and a heavy water production plant near Arak.
That led to an IAEA investigation, which turned up nearly two decades
of covert nuclear activities, including a large-scale uranium
enrichment program and suspicious "dual use" experiments that could be
linked to weapons programs.
ElBaradei also suggested Wednesday that the time was approaching to
wind down the intense focus on Iran's activities and treat Tehran as
just another IAEA member.
He said his agency was monitoring an Iranian commitment made in
November to suspend uranium enrichment activities that could be used
toward nuclear weapons development. He said the agreement had not been
violated.
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