can Washington reciprocate?
In a clear sign of new flexibility on the nuclear issue, Iran has agreed to allow the IAEA to inspect the heavy water reactor under construction in Arak, south of Tehran, as well as to upgrade the IAEA’s ability to monitor the nuclear facility in Natanz, central Iran. Insisting that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, such transparency measures on the part of Iran are long overdue and are in step with the country’s nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations. The new head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, the US-educated physicist Ali Akbar Salehi, has pinned his hope on the IAEA appreciating Iran’s extensive cooperation with the UN atomic agency. He has called on the IAEA to “normalize” Iran’s file, given the absence of any evidence of illicit nuclear activity on its part. The lack of evidence has been admitted by, among others, the new head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, who in his first press conference in July confirmed the agency’s lack of any information on Iran’s pu
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