Safeguards inspection measurements should also maintain independence from facility operator declarations.
The agency's report had concluded, in part, that Iran had not met its obligations in terms of "the reporting of nuclear material, the subsequent processing and use of that material and the declaration of facilities where the material was stored and processed".
The declaration that the facility was nearly ready came in an interview on Saturday with Fereydoon Abbasi, who was made the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization shortly after surviving an assassination attempt in 2010.
Iran's declaration of this facility to the IAEA, which predates Obama's announcement by several days, is probably a recognition on the part of Iran that this duplication of effort is no longer representative of sound policy on its part.
In recent months, India announced two favorable reactor park sites for U.S. firms in the states of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, and submitted its declaration of safeguarded facilities to the IAEA.
A 300-page section of the declaration, describing industrial facilities in Iraq where there could have been nuclear activity after 1991, includes much new information that analysts have to scrutinize carefully, he said.
In agreements struck in February and fine-tuned in October, North Korea promised to disable its Yongbyon nuclear facilities and give a complete declaration of all its nuclear programs by the end of the year in return for fuel and other aid.
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of National Taiwan University Hospital and its affiliated facilities and adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki.
In its report, the agency said that Iran's belated "declaration of the new facility reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction, and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities in Iran which had not been declared to the agency".
As such, Iran was reverting back to its legally-binding requirements of the original safeguards agreement, which did not require early declaration of nuclear-capable facilities prior to the introduction of nuclear material.
Among the programs, notable successes have been the declaration of 40 health facilities (31 hospitals and 9 maternity units) as Baby Friendly, the drafting of a National Breast Feeding Policy and the development of a National Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes.
