EU nuclear envoy backs US,Britain,France on Iran plant

The West's chief nuclear negotiator,Javier Solana,backed on Friday demands by the United States,Britain and France for UN access to a new atomic site revealed by Iran,his spokeswoman said.

The West’s chief nuclear negotiator,Javier Solana,backed on Friday demands by the United States,Britain and France for UN access to a new atomic site revealed by Iran,his spokeswoman said.

“We support the position” of the three,the spokeswoman said,after US President Barack Obama,French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Iran to open the plant to UN inspections.

Obama said the secret facility had been built inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom,160 kilometres south of Tehran. Iran already has one enrichment plant at Natanz.

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Uranium enrichment is required to fuel a nuclear reactor,but at highly refined levels can produce the core of an atomic bomb,which the West fears the Islamic republic is trying to covertly develop.

Since 2006,Solana has been negotiating on behalf of major world powers to try to pursuade Iran to enter talks on suspending its enrichment activities in exchange for political and economic incentives.

Obama said that Tehran must be ready,at a meeting between Iran and the powers on October 1 in Geneva,to cooperate fully with the UN nuclear watchdog or face further isolation.

The three also threatened tough sanctions if Iran fails to open up the plant.

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