(19 Nov 2012)
1. Tilt down exterior of Elysee Palace, official residence of French President, and guard of honour
2. Car pulls up, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano gets out and is greeted by official
3. Amano and officials entering Elysee Palace
4. French and EU flags outside Palace
5. Amano exiting Palace with French President Francois Hollande
6. Hollande and Amano shaking hands
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA
"We have certainly discussed the issue of Iran. I stressed that the situation is worrying but it is important to continue to seek the diplomatic solution. We have discussed the accident of Fukoshima, and its follow-up."
8. Mid of Amano
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA
"The current situation (in Iran) is worrying but the declared material and installation facilities are under the IAEA safeguard, and we can verify that they stay in peaceful purpose. We are going to have a high-level dialogue with Iran on the 13th of December in Tehran. The way to solve this issue is by diplomatic means and we'll continue our efforts."
10. Amano getting into car
STORYLINE:
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday that the situation regarding Iranian nuclear development was "worrying", but stressed the importance of continuing to seek a diplomatic solution.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano was speaking in Paris where he had been holding talks with French President Francois Hollande.
The IAEA said last Friday that Iran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, a development that puts Tehran within months of being able to make the core of a nuclear warhead.
The finding also calls into question a tentative new US plan meant to induce Tehran to compromise on its nuclear program by offering a rollback of crippling new anti-Iran sanctions if Tehran cuts back on enriching uranium to 20 percent.
Despite IAEA concerns over Iranian nuclear output, Amano said that "the declared material and installation facilities are under the IAEA safeguard, and we can verify that they stay in peaceful purpose".
He said a "high-level dialogue" was set to take place with Iran in Tehran on the 13th of December in Tehran.
"The way to solve this issue is by diplomatic means and we'll continue our efforts," he added.
In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was ready within days to ramp up its production of 20 percent enriched uranium at its plant at Fordo using 700 more centrifuges.
That would double Iran's present output and cut in half the time it would take to acquire enough of the substance needed to make a nuclear weapon, reducing it to just over three months.
Iran says it has no interest in making nuclear arms, just nuclear power for its citizens.
But the international community fears that Tehran may turn its peaceful uranium enrichment program toward weapons making - a concern that is growing as the
government expands the number of machines it uses to enrich its stockpile of enriched uranium.
As those fears grow, so does concern that Israel could carry out its threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before that nation reaches the bomb-making threshold.
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