Iran confirms increase in IAEA inspections
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Iran confirmed on Saturday that it has allowed watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to increase the number of inspections it carries out into Tehran's nuclear programme, state media reported.
"We have increased capacity -- it is natural that the number of inspections should also increase," the official IRNA news agency quoted the country's nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami as saying.
"When we carry out nuclear activities, and where we deal with nuclear materials, changing the scale will naturally change the monitoring level," he added.
Eslami's comments came after an IAEA report, seen by AFP on Friday, that Iran had agreed to increased monitoring.
"Iran agreed to the agency's request to increase the frequency and intensity of the implementation of safeguards measures at Fordo enrichment plant" south of Tehran, the IAEA report said.
Iran insists on its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.