IAEA suspects Iran of undeclared nuclear activity

A deputy to Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi will soon visit Tehran for talks on two sites in respect of which the agency remains suspicious of Iran's undeclared nuclear activities.

According to Interfax, this was announced by the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami.

"Of the facilities, two remain in question, and we hope that the problems associated with them will be resolved through cooperation with the IAEA," Eslami was quoted by the Iranian media as saying.

He told reporters that he also intends to meet Grossi in Vienna.

Earlier, the IAEA director-general stated that his agency had not received any explanation from Tehran about traces of uranium found by agency inspectors in Iran in three places that cannot be considered nuclear facilities.

Informed sources in Tehran later said that a series of technical talks had reduced the number of sites the international agency had suspicions about to two.

At the end of May, the IAEA announced in a confidential quarterly report that it had decided to stop investigating traces of uranium allegedly found at one of three sites, the Marivan test site in Abad district, after receiving clarification from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.