Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 49

6-December-2004

IRAN

Iran Agrees Conditional Suspension Of Uranium Upgrading

After an 11th-hour bid to keep some centrifuges working to upgrade uranium for research purposes, ahead of the 25-26 November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting (MEES, 29 November), Iran last week agreed to shut down all upgrading activities so long as talks with EU members on economic cooperation continued. The concession enabled the IAEA to...