ElBaradei to follow up on Geneva talks in weekend visit to Iran

Mohamed ElBaradeiVienna  - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei is set to travel to Tehran on the weekend to follow up on two key outcomes of Iran's multilateral nuclear talks in Geneva, an IAEA spokesman said Friday.

One topic of ElBaradei's trip would be Iran's newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qom, which IAEA inspectors want to visit as soon as possible.

Iran agreed in Geneva to grant the Vienna-based nuclear agency access, in Thursday's meeting with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - China, Britain, France, Russia and the United States - as well as Germany.

ElBaradei said earlier this week Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" because it had declared the site too late.

In addition, the Egyptian IAEA Director General is set to discuss a plan to export most of Iran's enriched uranium to France and Russia to turn it into fuel for a medical-use reactor in Tehran.

Diplomats said Tehran's agreement in Geneva to discuss such a plan was an important confidence-building step.  dpa