No huge total, it is true, and no doubt it includes a good deal of previously undeclared activity; but still not far from the 40,000 expected for the whole year.In this section Which way now for French policy?
In his address to the nuclear agency's board, Dr. ElBaradei spoke of a "crucial" need for Iran to "restore confidence" in its nuclear program in light of its history of undeclared activity.
Zarif said that Iran was prepared to agree to a rigorous protocol that would allow inspectors to look at previously undeclared activities that appeared to comprise a breach of the deal.
Tehran has already acknowledged, however, that it will have to sign the so-called "additional protocol," which gives "further inspection authority" to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency "to provide assurance about both declared and possible undeclared activities and to get a more complete picture of a state's overall nuclear program".
Iran will allow UN inspectors to enter sites, including military sites, when the inspectors have grounds to believe undeclared nuclear activity is being carried out there.
A FIRST report, last month, by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, expressed "concern" at a string of previously undeclared nuclear activities in Iran.
Traces of uranium found at a Syrian site bombed by Israel are not sufficient evidence of undeclared nuclear activity, but Syria must be more open to help clarify the issue, the director of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Monday.
The IAEA needs that strengthened inspection power if it is to provide effective monitoring of declared and undeclared nuclear material and activities.
Cautiously, it stated, "It is clear that Iran has failed in a number of instances over an extended period of time to meet its obligations... with respect to the reporting of nuclear material and its processing and use.... To date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities referred to above were related to a nuclear weapons programme".
Your editorial's insinuation of "Iran's drive to build nuclear weapons" is contradicted by the agency's conclusion in a 2003 report that "to date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities referred to above were related to a nuclear weapons program".
When Iran's undeclared nuclear activities were revealed in 2002, the Iranian programme was propelled to the top of the international agenda.
