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UN inspectors visit Iran's nuke plant
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-10-25 22:00

UN inspectors visit Iran's nuke plant
Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) leave the Imam Khomeini airport outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. [Agencies]

TEHRAN: A semiofficial Iranian news agency says U.N. inspectors have visited a formerly secret uranium enrichment site that has raised Western suspicions about the extent of Iran's nuclear program.

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It was the world's first look inside the heavily protected plant, second in the country which is being built inside a mountainside near the holy city of Qom south of Tehran.

The Mehr news agency says the inspectors examined the facility Sunday, more than a month after Iran disclosed the site to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

The inspection comes as the US and its allies wait for Iran's decision on a U.N.-brokered plan to send most of the country's uranium to Russia for enrichment. The West says the deal would ease fears about Iran's ability to make weapons-grade fuel.