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15 Oct 2003 15:29:52 GMT Reuters
ElBaradei won't extend Iran's nuke deadline

The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Wednesday that Iran could not expect an extension of an October 31 deadline to provide proof that they do not have a secret atomic weapons programme.

"I cannot accept that by the end of the month we will be in a position...that we believe that we have not gotten all the information we require," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei told Reuters.

He added that Iran had increased its level of cooperation in recent weeks but said: "the speed is still not the way we would like to see it".

http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L15632999.htm

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Iran: IAEA Says Tehran Slow To Cooperate

Frankfurt, Germany; 15 October 2003 (NCA)

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said today that Iran is slow in providing international inspectors the information they need to verify that Tehran is not working to produce nuclear weapons.

Mohammad el-Baradei today said that Iran has increased cooperation with the inspectors but "not with the speed we would like to see." El-Baradei was speaking in the German city of Frankfurt before boarding a plane for Tehran.

The IAEA has given Iran until 31 October to answer questions on its nuclear program. El-Baradei said Iran could not expect an extension of the deadline.

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/10/15102003175155.asp