BBC新闻100篇 News Item 42

Iran has agreed to let inspectors

from the United Nations Nuclear Agency

visit its recently rebuilt second uranium enrichment plant.

They will go there on Oct. 25th,

the day was set during a visit to Tehran

by the head of the agency Mohammed ElBaradei.

The revelation last month

said Iran was building an underground facility near Qom

heightened international concern

that it's secretly trying to develope nuclear weapons.

But Mr. ElBaradei gave an upbeat

assessment to relations with Iran.

I have been saying

for a number of years

that we need transparency on the part of Iran.

We need co-operation

on the part of the international community.

So I see that we are at the critical moment.

I see that we are shifting gears

from confrontation into transparency and co-operation.

In Washington President Obama's top security advisor

said things appeared to be moving

in the right direction.