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...exclusive interview with the editors of TIME that coincided with Obama's announcement, Ahmadinejad insisted that Iran was not keeping anything from the IAEA. "We have no secrecy; we work within the framework of the IAEA," he said. Still, the Iranian leader seemed nonplussed by the news that Obama was revealing the Qum plant's existence. Ahmadinejad's response meandered from the defensive to the aggressive. "This does not mean we must inform Mr. Obama's Administration of every facility that we have," he said, warning that if Obama brings up the uranium facility, it "simply adds to the list...
...Obama warned that Iran would be held accountable if it failed to live up to its international obligations. Fearing imminent disclosure of the plant - which is being built into a mountain near the seminary city of Qum - the Iranians earlier this week wrote to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to confirm its existence. (Read the full transcript of TIME's exclusive interview with Ahmadinejad...
...President Obama, Mr. Sarkozy, and Mr. Brown who are collectively making this announcement. If I were Mr. Obama's adviser, I would definitely ask him to refrain from making this statement because its is definitively of mistake. We have no secrecy and we work within the framework of the IAEA and based on specific regulations and predetermined timeframes, we disclose information about our operations and facilities to the IAEA. We do that on our own initiative, not that anyone forces us to. Now of course, I'm not the person who should be giving this advice to Mr. Obama because...
...changed its mind. How do we get back on course? What specific steps have to be made in order to improve relations between our countries? What steps do we have to make and just to reiterate my editors question, would you be willing to allow complete inspections by the IAEA including this new facility, this third nuclear enrichment facility? I'm sorry, but frankly I don't really see the connections between issues pertaining to IAEA and issues regarding Afghanistan. As you said and said correctly, in the beginning we did assist NATO troops and the troops that went into...
...asked earlier. Again, President Obama as well as Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Brown will be asking immediate inspections of this new, previously undisclosed nuclear facility. How do you respond to that? Will you allow the inspections? We don't have any problems in terms of cooperating with the IAEA based on the supervisory prerogatives of the IAEA. We are the ones that have always informed the agency of our activities within the framework defined by the rules and regulations that are there. We don't see any problems coming up, but why don't we let Mr. Obama announce what...