Iran has approved arrival of the deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency to a nuclear power plant. Reactors at the plant enrich uranium and plutonium. Both substances may be used for peaceful and military purposes.
Associated Press says that Iran permitted the visit after several years of refusals. Tehran insists that the nuclear program is peaceful.
France believes that Iran's shifting of uranium enrichment facilities to the Fordu facility in Natanza, near Kum, violates the UN resolution, RIA Novosti reports.
Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Minister Ramin Mehmanparast said in mid-July that Tehran improved uranium enrichment by moving centrifuges.
Uranium enrichment is expected to reach 20% at the Fordu facility, Tehran said in June. Iran informed the IAEA about construction of the second uranium enrichment facility at Kum, 100 km south of Tehran, in September 2009.
Fordu will have a cascade of 164 centrifuges of the new generation.
Iran announced in November 2009 that the country will have a total of 10 uranium enrichment facilities.
