From: Bloomberg

Iran said that all activities at a fortified nuclear site, where it began enriching uranium drawing U.S. condemnation, are under the permanent supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Fordo “was declared more than two years ago and since then the agency has continuously monitored all the activities,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s delegate to the IAEA, told the state- run Press TV news channel. “Every step we have taken so far and will take in the future has been and will be under IAEA containment and surveillance.”

Iran has started the production of uranium enriched up to 20 percent in the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant near the holy city of Qom, International Atomic Energy Agency spokesman Gill Tudor said in an e-mail yesterday. “All nuclear material in the facility remains under the agency’s containment and surveillance.”

The start of enrichment activities at the Fordo facility, which is built into the side of a mountain south of Tehran, the capital, has aroused Western ire and may accelerate the imposition of tighter sanctions on the country.

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