Iran allows IAEA to visit Arak plant, Gachin mine

According to an agreement between Iran and the IAEA here on Monday, Iran will allow the UN nuclear watchdog's inspectors to visit Arak heavy water plant and Gachin yellow cake mine. The agreement was signed by Ali-Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Yukiya Amano, the visiting chief of the IAEA, or International Atomic Energy Agency. Salehi said the agreement "is a roadmap which clarifies the mutual steps to resolve the remaining issues" pertaining to the IAEA's questions on Iran's nuclear activities. In the agreement, Iran announced its readiness to "voluntarily let the IAEA inspectors visit the Arak heavy water plant as well as the Bandar Abbas Gachin mine" in the south of the country.