Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 40

5-Oct-2009

IRAN

IAEA Calls For Further Information On New Uranium Enrichment Plant

Tehran has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that construction of a second centrifuge-based uranium enrichment plan has begun near Qom, following widespread media reports that Iran was building a secret underground nuclear facility. An upgrading plant with 6,000 centrifuges is already in operation at Natanz, and Tehran said earlier that it planned to...