2010-06-21 19:38

TEHRAN - Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Monday that Iran has banned two IAEA inspectors from visiting its nuclear facilities because they filed false information on the country's nuclear program, the ISNA news agency reported.

Referring to the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Ali Akbar Salehi said "two inspectors of the IAEA presented false reports on Iran's nuclear activities, so based on safeguards agreement, we called for banning their arrival in Iran for inspection, since they have also disclosed information before it had been examined officially and they had provided media with false information on Iran's nuclear work," said the report.

Concerning Iran's plan to build a more powerful reactor, Salehi said "we have been working on making a reactor similar to Tehran research reactor, the reactor is a 'water pool reactor' in which fuel plates are put for production of radioactive medicines."

Salehi said on June 16 that Iran will build another nuclear reactor for research use, which is designed to be "more powerful" than the Tehran reactor.

On June 9, the UN Security Council voted to impose a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, which the West suspects aims at developing nuclear weapons, a charge resolutely denied by Tehran.