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Iran’s uranium mine inspected by UN officers

Nuke inspectors visit Iran uranium mine for 1st time in years CBS News,  DUBAI/VIENNA REUTERS January 29, 2014, — U.N. nuclear inspectors visited an Iranian uranium mine for the first time in nearly a decade on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, as Tehran gradually opens up its disputed nuclear program to greater international scrutiny.
 A three-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency went to the Gchine mine near the southern Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas, a spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy organization said. The IAEA was last there in 2005.

 They “are now conducting their inspection,” Behrouz Kamalvandi was quoted as saying on the website of Press TV, Iran’s English-language state television……..Allowing the U.N. nuclear agency — which is investigating suspicions that Iran may have carried out atomic bomb research — to go to Gchine was among six concrete steps Iran agreed to under a Nov. 11 cooperation agreement with the IAEA.

The IAEA-Iran deal is separate from a Nov. 24 breakthrough accord between Iran and six world powers to curb Iran’s nuclear program in return for a limited easing of sanctions that have battered its economy. That agreement took effect on Jan. 20.

Both accords signaled a rapid improvement in Iran’s troubled ties with the outside world, made possible by the June election of a relative moderate, Hassan Rouhani, as president on a platform of ending Tehran’s international isolation…….http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-uranium-mine-visited-by-united-nations-nuclear-inspectors-for-first-time-since-2005/

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