Iran’s Foreign Minister Salehi: Iran is ready to receive nuclear experts from China to visit country’s nuclear sites; Egypt arrests Iranian diplomat for passing information
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    • Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is ready to receive nuclear experts from China to visit the country’s nuclear sites so that they can become familiar with Iran’s nuclear program. He also added that this invitation is extended while no other country in the world would allow experts from other countries to visit their nuclear installations sites. Reports noted that asked if Iran would continue producing uranium enriched to a purity level of 20 percent, the Iranian foreign minister said that Iran, like other signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has the right to enrich uranium to meet its needs.1

    In another development, Egypt has held an Iranian who worked at Iran’s diplomatic mission in Cairo. Reports noted that this detention could be a potential setback to improving ties between the two countries. Al Arabiya television named the man as Kassem Al Hosseini and described him as a diplomat who had been detained for “passing information”, without giving more details. Two security sources confirmed the detention to Reuters and one of them confirmed the charge. Neither gave details of his diplomatic status or name. Ties between the two states — severed after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution and after Egypt made peace with Israel — had recently been warming. Although they do not have full diplomatic relations, each has a mission in the other’s capital. Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby said after meeting an Iranian official in Cairo in April that Egypt was open to re-establishing diplomatic relations, marking a shift in policy since a popular uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.2

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