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Iran holds talks with IAEA chief on nuclear issues
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 26 - 04 - 2010

Iran's foreign minister met the head of the United Nations' atomic watchdog Sunday to discuss a stalled nuclear fuel proposal that could help ease Tehran's dispute with the West, Iranian officials and media said.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Iranian state television before his meeting with Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that their talks would be “decisive and detailed”.
Iranian officials from the delegation in Vienna confirmed to Reuters the two men had met but they gave no more information. “The IAEA...can play a more constructive role,” Mottaki said in his earlier comments. “We believe the fuel swap can create multilateral trust.”
“We welcome the meeting as a good opportunity for the IAEA to express its concerns to Iran directly,” said Glyn Davies, US ambassador to the IAEA.
Missiles test-fired
Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired five missiles Sunday during war games in a waterway crucial for global oil supplies, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
Iran, locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear work, often announces advances in its military capabilities and tests weaponry in an apparent bid to show its readiness for any attack by Israel or the United States.
The Guards' exercises in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz coincided with rising tension between Iran and the West, which says Tehran's nuclear program is aimed at developing bombs. Iran denies the charge.
Fars said naval units of the Guards fired five missiles at a target, without making clear if they were new.
“Despite the different places from which the missiles were fired , they all hit the target simultaneously and completely destroyed it,” Fars said.
The missiles were surface-to-surface and surface-to


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