IAEA visits Iran's nuke site

Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog conducted a five-hour visit to Iran's heavy-water reactor site at Arak yesterday, the official IRNA news agency said, the first such visit there since April.

Iran agreed on July 24 to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visit the complex early this week, as part of a UN push for more transparency in Iran's disputed nuclear program.

Four months ago Iran cut off IAEA access to Arak, southwest of the capital Teheran, to protest at UN sanctions against Teheran over its refusal to halt atomic work Western powers suspect is aimed at making nuclear bombs. Iran denies the charge.