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Sun 10 Oct 2009UN team 'inspects Iran nuclear site'
UN nuclear experts today inspected a uranium enrichment site whose existence was announced by Iran last month, the semi-official Mers news agency said.
Tehran's secrecy about the site, which diplomats say was detected by western intelligence three years ago, has raised fears it is running a covert programme to develop nuclear bombs. Iran, which says it is seeking only to generate electricity, agreed to open up the plant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at talks with six world powers on October 1st.
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