IAEA CALLS FOR MORE DIALOGUE ON IRAN

UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei called for more dialogue between the international community and Iran on the country’s nuclear issue. El Baradei, general secretary of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made the call after a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin. El Baradei said Iran’s progress in developing uranium enrichment is slow and recent additions to its nuclear fuel production complex have only been older-model centrifuges. The UN nuclear watchdog is well informed on the current situation in Iran, he said. He noted that Tehran’s enrichment programme was based on the first-generation centrifuges of the P1 type, although research was underway into developing more sophisticated centrifuges.