Iran Safeguards Report Circulated to IAEA Board

On March 2, 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (“IAEA”) provided a report about Iran’s nuclear safeguards to its Board of Governors, its 35-member policymaking arm.  The report, which details Iranian nuclear developments that have occurred since November 15, 2007, is entitled: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions 1737 (2006) and 1747 (2007) in the Islamic Republic of Iran.  While the Board will discuss its contents during a meeting in Vienna on Monday, March 3, 2007, the report’s circulation is circumscribed, to be read and discussed only within the Agency unless the Board itself decides otherwise.  

Dr. El Baradei, the Agency’s General Director and a 2005 Noble Peace Prize Winner (along with the IAEA) defines the task in Iran as “[making] sure that the Iranian nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes,” and says that “in the last four months, in particular, we have made quite good progress in clarifying the outstanding issues that had to do with Iran´s past nuclear activities, with the exception of one issue, and that is the alleged weaponization studies that supposedly Iran has conducted in the past.”  A transcript of an  interview with Dr. El Baradei in regards to this latest report is readily available.

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