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Iran will inform UN nuclear inspectors where 10 planned installations are only six months before they become operational, Tehran has said. | |
Friday's announcement came after the US warned Iran that "time was running out" if it wanted to avoid sanctions over its nuclear programme. | |
Iran said its timetable was legitimate under international agreements. | |
It maintains that its programme is peaceful, despite international fears it is trying to build nuclear weapons. | |
Tehran has continued to defy the six nations - the US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia - trying to negotiate a deal over their nuclear material. | |
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced last week that his country would build another 10 secret facilities to enrich uranium, although experts doubt whether it has the resources to do so. | |
He has also said Iran plans to enrich uranium to 20%, a higher level than at present. | |
On Friday Iranian officials said they would allow nuclear inspectors in to the plants six months before they started up centrifuges used to enrich uranium. | |
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Iran has also rejected a deal suggested by negotiators to allay international fears that it is attempting to enrich uranium to the degree necessary to make a nuclear weapon. | |
The deal would have regulated Iran's access to its nuclear material by sending it abroad to be enriched. | |
Under the plan, the return of the enriched uranium would be controlled and its use limited to use in a reactor near Tehran which is monitored by the International Atomic Energy Authority. | |
Last week, the IAEA voted to rebuke Iran for building a second facility in secret under a mountain near the city of Qom. | |
On Thursday Iran's Parliament responded saying it would review relations with counties that had backed the condemnation of the Tehran government at the IAEA. | |
Russia, previously considered an ally of Iran, had joined the vote. | |
But on Thursday Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin apparently eased its pressure on Iran, declining to answer a question on possible sanctions at a televised question-and-answer session. | |
Russia had "no information that Iran is working on the creation of a nuclear weapon" Mr Putin said. | |
Civilian nuclear power requires uranium enriched to about 3%, but weapons grade uranium needs to be enriched to 90%. | |
Iran has declared its intention to enrich uranium to 20%. | |
Existing UN sanctions are meant to prevent the flow of any items or technology which might aid Iran in enriching uranium or developing nuclear weapon delivery systems. | Existing UN sanctions are meant to prevent the flow of any items or technology which might aid Iran in enriching uranium or developing nuclear weapon delivery systems. |
But further sanctions might be imposed if diplomacy fails, negotiators say. | But further sanctions might be imposed if diplomacy fails, negotiators say. |
"Time is running out. That deadline is the end of the year," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told journalists on Wednesday. | "Time is running out. That deadline is the end of the year," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told journalists on Wednesday. |