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2月24日付、「Iran Mania」が「ロイター」からのレポートとして、伝えたところによると、イランは国際原子力機関（IAEA)に対して、西側の諜報機関が「核弾頭ミサイルの設計と高性能爆発の開発につながる」と疑惑視しているウラン濃縮プロジェクトに関する情報の提供を申し出たとのこと。
これはIAEAに近い、ある上級外交官からの情報であり、これは国連安保理がイランへの制裁を果たすべきか否かを決定する、3月6日のIAEAの会議を視野に入れての申し出だろうということだ。
この外交官の名前は匿名だが、IAEAの検査官が今週末、「グリーン・ソルト・プロジェクト（ Green Salt Project）」に関する情報を調査するためにテヘランを訪れるだろうと「ロイター」は伝えているとのこと。
Iran offers IAEA information on uranium project
Friday, February 24, 2006 - ©2005 IranMania.com
LONDON, February 24 (IranMania) - Iran has offered UN inspectors information about a shadowy uranium-processing project that Western intelligence has linked to missile warhead design and tests with high explosives, a senior diplomat said, Reuters reported.
The offer was made with the clock ticking toward a March 6 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that could result in UN Security Council action against Iran for failing to clear up doubts about its nuclear program.
The diplomat, close to the IAEA but asking not to be named, said IAEA inspectors would be in Tehran this weekend to check the information on the "Green Salt Project", Reuters added.
This could form an important part of a report IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei is to circulate to the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board members early next week in advance of their March meeting.
Diplomats hope ElBaradei's report will be a conclusive account of three years of IAEA investigations into whether Iran's nuclear energy drive is wholly peaceful or not, Reuters noted.
Word of the Green Salt Project first emerged in a summary of investigations by an ElBaradei deputy given to a February 2-4 IAEA board meeting that resulted in a vote to report Iran's case to the Security Council.
WESTERN CONCERN: The vote reflected growing Western concern Iran may be secretly trying to build atomic bombs in breach of commitments to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran says its nuclear program is solely for power generation.
The summary by Olli Heinonen, ElBaradei's deputy for safeguards issues, said three aspects of the Green Salt Project "could have military-nuclear dimensions and appear to have administrative interconnections", Reuters stated.
Iran has dismissed the intelligence as "baseless allegations" but Heinonen's report said Tehran had pledged to provide clarification later.
Green salt is an intermediate product in the conversion of uranium ore into gas for enrichment into nuclear fuel.
A link between uranium conversion and explosives tests would concern the IAEA since the main hurdle in making an atomic bomb is designing a ring of conventional explosives to compress nuclear material in a warhead core to ignite a nuclear chain reaction, Reuters added.
The IAEA also has a range of questions about Iran's procurement of "dual use" equipment, components applicable to both civilian and military nuclear ends.
Asked about the Green Salt development, a European Union diplomat told Reuters:
"The February 4 board vote made very clear what Iran had to do, provide transparency that has been long overdue and essential to regaining international confidence in its nuclear intentions, as Dr ElBaradei has repeatedly said."
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