Official Invites IAEA Chief to Tour Iran's N. Sites

Following a meeting with Amano in Vienna on Tuesday on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear safety conference, Abbasi announced that during his talks with the IAEA Director-General, he had invited Amano and his colleagues to a tour of Iran's nuclear facilities. 
Abbasi said he had even invited Amano to visit any nuclear site he wants all throughout Iran. 
"I invited Mr. Amano to come to visit anywhere they like in all our nuclear installations," Reuters reported. 
He also said that he had held "very good" and "transparent" talks with Amano. 
Abbasi said that the two sides pledged to resolve problems through more dialogue in future but did not give any details on what was discussed. 
"We don't have a difference of view," he stated. 
On January 15 and January 16, 2011, representatives of over 140 world countries, including envoys from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Arab League, Egypt, Cuba, Syria, Algeria, Venezuela and Oman visited Natanz enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water reactor in response to Iran's invitation. 
Some members of the UN Security Council and the European Union had also been invited but decided not to send representatives. 
Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry. 
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic. 
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment. 
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path. 
Iran plans to construct additional nuclear power plants to provide for the electricity needs of its growing population. 
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities. 
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.