Iran allows in UN inspectors ahead of Nuclear Report

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Iran has made considerable concessions to UN nuclear inspectors days before an extremely critical report on the Nation’s nuclear programme is due to be published, said by ambassadors.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Iran's virtually complete heavy water reactor near the central town of Arak , after having been banned from the site for a year. Western officials speak the reactor could be used to make plutonium, but Tehran preserves it is for research and the production of medically useful isotopes.

IAEA inspectors became anxious when they were allowed access to the site last year and a roof was built over the reactor hence they were no longer able to keep track of its evolution from satellite photographs.

Ambassadors also said to the Guardian that the Iranian government had made concessions over IAEA monitoring at Iran's extremely controversial Uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

The UN security council has commands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment at Natanz until it can prove it is for the peaceful purposes Tehran declares. The Iranian government has declined to comply, challenging several waves of financial sanctions.

The IAEA has fix cameras inside Natanz, but had complained that it could not watch the operation of the roughly 7,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges there, while new centrifuges were regularly being installed. According to ambassadors in Vienna, where the IAEA has its headquarters, the Iranians have decided to change their work patterns to make it easier for inspectors. The change is essential as the IAEA needs to certify that the centrifuges at Natanz are agreed in a way that produces low-enriched uranium (apt for power generation) rather than highly enriched uranium (used in weapons).

The concessions comes before the publication of a new IAEA report that is estimated to be highly important of Iran's co-operation with the agency.

Barack Obama has said that Iran has until the year end to show readiness to obey with UN demands, but western officials have said that it should be apparent by next month whether the government of Mahmoud is ready to compromise in the wake up of his disputed re-election.

If not, the US, British and French governments will begin to thrust for distant harder sanctions at a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on 24 September and UN summit in New York. If Russia and China defy, as many western officials expect, Washington and its associates will believe measures by a "coalition of the willing" focused on blocking Iranian entrée to refined petroleum. Any such move would considerably raise tensions in the Gulf, but foundation in Washington and London believe strong action is necessary if there is to be any chance of ending a nuclear race in the Middle East and a possible Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear targets.

One western official whispered Iran's concessions were aimed at resolving some of the momentum towards corrective action.