In response, the IAEA has requested Iran to "provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible", an IAEA statement adds.
If this is the case then of course the peaceful uses of nuclear energy should be allowed under the IAEA rules and IAEA control.
This is all done in strict compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and with IAEA rules and under permanent and quite tough IAEA control.
McClellan said the Iraqi government reported the missing weaponry to the IAEA in a letter dated October 10, and the IAEA informed the U.S. mission in Vienna on October 15.
The United States could even be involved in this if it were under the auspices of the IAEA, which is a program that the director of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, has proposed.
Again, 32 to 2 at the IAEA -- that's a stronger vote than in the last IAEA resolution -- and 106 to 9, without a single Arab or Muslim country voting against it.
It could even influence Turkey and Brazil, both of which have been reluctant to see new sanctions and have claimed to take their lead from the (previously less critical) IAEA. Now the IAEA is changing tune, will they do so too?
What I can tell you is that the Russians and the Chinese, along with 30 other countries yesterday, at the IAEA voted for a resolution calling on Iran to meet its obligations, and commending the Secretary to the IAEA for the report.
None of the deletions to the list of locations that was previously declared to the IAEA pursuant to Article 2.a.(i), Article 2.a.(iv), Article 2.a.(v), Article 2.a.(vi)(a), Article 2.a.(vii), Article 2.a.(viii), and Article 2.b.(i) of the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol were due to such locations having direct national security significance.
The BBC's Bethany Bell, in Vienna, has examined the IAEA's latest quarterly report on Iran's nuclear programme.
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Japanese authorities said they had measured radiation dose rates of up to 400 millisieverts-per-hour, IAEA reported.
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The IAEA is helping countries use nuclear technology to boost food production and fight disease.
The UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has repeatedly accused Iran of not co-operating fully.
That EPA rule was designed for a lifetime of exposure, the IAEA guideline for short-term exposure.
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Mr. Blix was head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna from 1981-97.
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"His murder made the IAEA's job that much harder, " the diplomat told Reuters news agency.
Director general Yukiya Amano made the comments in a speech to the IAEA's governing board.
Mohamed ElBaradei's tenure as the IAEA's director-general from 1997-2009 wasn't distinguished by its vigilance regarding Iran.
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The IAEA report to the council focuses on an array of nuclear activities in Iran.
We committed to the universalization of the IAEA Additional Protocol as soon as possible.
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The IAEA's approval of the plan is a key condition for enacting the deal.
IAEA's ability to be more definitive is hampered by limited access to the evidence.
The IAEA released a report each quarter detailing its progress at monitoring Iran's nuclear development.
Nonetheless, Iraq continued to tell the IAEA that it had no nuclear weapons program.
Before the IAEA statement, France said Iran was not responding positively to the deal.
All our nuclear activities are transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eyes of IAEA inspectors.
The plan was set out in a letter to the IAEA dated 23 January, reports said.
Better, says Pierre Goldschmidt, an ex-head of safeguards at the IAEA, to end all favouritism.
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Indeed, the main target of the IAEA's investigations of the al-Kibar facility has been Israel.
's IAEA said its inspectors found a high level of enriched uranium in Iran.
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