09-19-2015, 02:59 PM
Sat Sep 19, 2015 | 8:37 AM EDT
VIENNA (Reuters) -
The director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which is investigating whether Iran carried out work aimed at developing an atom bomb, will travel to Iran this weekend, the agency said on Saturday.
Under a roadmap agreement reached
alongside a July 14 deal between six world
powers and Iran, the International Atomic
Energy Agency will provide an assessment on
"possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear
program by the end of the year.
The assessment is crucial to the implementation of the deal, under which
restrictions would be placed on Iran's nuclear
activities in exchange for a lifting of sanctions.
"IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano will travel to Tehran today for meetings with high-level Iranian officials on Sunday, 20 September," the IAEA said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the agency declined to specify which officials he would meet.
The IAEA said 10 days ago it had sent Iran
questions over "ambiguities" in its submissions
relating to the assessment of its past nuclear
activities.
"Technical-expert meetings, technical measures and discussions will be organized in Tehran prior to 15 October 2015 to remove the
ambiguities identified by the IAEA," the agency
said in a statement at the time.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy, editing by
David Evans)
VIENNA (Reuters) -
The director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which is investigating whether Iran carried out work aimed at developing an atom bomb, will travel to Iran this weekend, the agency said on Saturday.
Under a roadmap agreement reached
alongside a July 14 deal between six world
powers and Iran, the International Atomic
Energy Agency will provide an assessment on
"possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear
program by the end of the year.
The assessment is crucial to the implementation of the deal, under which
restrictions would be placed on Iran's nuclear
activities in exchange for a lifting of sanctions.
"IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano will travel to Tehran today for meetings with high-level Iranian officials on Sunday, 20 September," the IAEA said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the agency declined to specify which officials he would meet.
The IAEA said 10 days ago it had sent Iran
questions over "ambiguities" in its submissions
relating to the assessment of its past nuclear
activities.
"Technical-expert meetings, technical measures and discussions will be organized in Tehran prior to 15 October 2015 to remove the
ambiguities identified by the IAEA," the agency
said in a statement at the time.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy, editing by
David Evans)