TEHRAN, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Tehran said Saturday that it will let the IAEA resume surprise checks of its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council hands its file back to the organization's nuclear watchdog.
"If Iran's nuclear file is returned to the International Atomic Energy Agency, we will continue to comply with our commitments under the Additional Protocol [to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]," Mohammad Saeedi, Iran's deputy nuclear chief, told national state-run television.
Under the protocol, signed, but not ratified by Iran, all of the country's nuclear sites should be open to surprise inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog. Tehran barred IAEA checks in February after it was referred to the U.N. Security Council over its uranium enrichment activities.
Saeedi said, however, that Tehran would go on with uranium enrichment. "Uranium enrichment in Iran will continue, but we will be fulfilling our [NPT] Additional Protocol obligations in a gesture of goodwill," he said.
