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State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said that the draft agreement remains "a very positive step."
But some US experts believe that
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Iran's delaying tactics could be having an effect on something else:
Iran's recently revealed second uranium-enrichment facility, near the
holy city of Qom.
While the US and its partners have focused on
getting Tehran's agreement to ship much of its stockpile of
low-enriched uranium to Russia, less attention has been paid to the
fact that it has now been a month since Qom's existence was made
public. United Nations inspectors have yet to set foot inside the plant.
"A month may not seem like much, but it
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has important implications for the [International Atomic Energy
Agency's] ability to properly understand the nature of the Qom
facility," write Nima Gerami and James Acton, nonproliferation analysts
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a recent article
for the journal Foreign Policy.
Right now, Iran plans to let
inspectors inside on Oct. 25. Given that it takes time to analyze
findings such as environmental samples taken from within the Qom
facility, final results are unlikely to be available prior to the next
IAEA Board of Governors meeting on Nov. 23.
"By the time they
are available ¨C probably for the first board meeting next year ¨C the
current sense of urgency will have been lost," according to
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