The commentary recalls that, in his speech at the March session of the IAEA Board of Governors, Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt said that operations in driving an underground tunnel, of which Iran had not timely informed the IAEA, were discovered on December 15, 2004, during checks at the Isfahan uranium-conversion plant.
After him, State Secretary Condoleezza Rice invited the IAEA to check the suspicious activities of Iran.
"The Iranian side says that the tunnel information was contained in the updated documentation, submitted to the IAEA on December 13, 2004, on the Isfahan uranium-conversion plant and that tunnel driving has nothing to do with the process of conversion and is targeted exclusively at the safe keeping of nuclear materials", the communique reads.
