IAEA receives information from Tehran on n-plan

The UN nuclear agency on Tuesday said it received substantive amount of information from Iran about its nuclear programme and the agency is still verifying the data.

Under the comprehensive deal agreed by Iran and six world powers on July 14, Iran would improve the transparency of its nuclear plan while freezing some of its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, Xinhua reported.

Yukiya Amano, head of IAEA, said the agency has got a "substantive volume" of information from Tehran.

The IAEA chief said the annual cost for verifying and monitoring nuclear activities in Iran is $10.63 million.

The agency will also need money in the run-up to the implementation of the July 14 deal, which was expected early next year.

"I call on all member states in a position to do so to contribute towards the financial needs of the agency related to implementation of the Joint Plan of Action, as well as preparatory and implementation work under the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action)," he told the agency's Board of Governors' meeting.

Under the deal with the US, Britain, China, Russia and France plus Germany, Iran agreed to improve the transparency of its nuclear plan and resolve all the past suspected nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

Amano called on member states to provide the agency with the money it needed, saying the extra budgetary contributions it received for this purpose will be exhausted by the end of September.

Based on information previously given to IAEA by some member states, IAEA said in a 2011 report that Iran might carry out nuclear weapons programme under its civilian nuclear plan, and the agency also speculated that Iran may have conducted hydrodynamic tests at Parchin military site, which Iran denied.