An Iranian diplomat Tuesday said Tehran "relates positively" to calls for it to sign a protocol allowing
for closer inspections of its nuclear facilities, the Russian Interfax news agency reported.
"We relate positively to signing the protocol, but we
believe that as regards the authority of the IAEA in Iran, all this should be transparent," the news agency quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Gholamali Khoshru as saying.
Khoshru spoke after meeting in Moscow with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov, who said consultations on the IAEA protocol would continue in further discussions
later in the day.
