* Amano says hopes for 'concrete outcome' in talks next week
* January talk on Iran's nuclear program were inconclusive
MEXICO CITY, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.
nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday the agency does not know if
during talks later this month Iran would give it access to a
military site named in a report that said Iran could have worked
on nuclear weapons.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the Vienna-based
International Atomic Energy Agency, said at an event in Mexico
City that he hopes a second round of talks with Iranian leaders
scheduled for Feb. 20-21 "will be a good, constructive one."
Three days of talks in Tehran between IAEA experts and
Iranian officials at the end of last month produced little
progress toward resolving disputes about Iran's nuclear program,
Western diplomats said.
The IAEA sought access to the Parchin military complex,
named in a November report by the agency that said Iran appeared
to have worked on designing nuclear bombs.
Asked if the agency would get access to Parchin, Amano said
"We don't know yet."
"Parchin is not the only issue. Our objective is to clarify
all the other issues and this cannot be done overnight but we
hope that there will be a concrete outcome," he told Reuters in
an interview, adding that the last meeting was not conclusive.
The United States and Israel have not ruled out military
action against Iran if diplomacy fails to resolve the
long-running nuclear dispute.
Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and
rejects allegations that it is building atomic weapons. It has
refused to stop uranium enrichment and has vowed to retaliate
over oil sanctions imposed by Western countries and any military
attack.
Suspicions about activities at Parchin, southeast of Tehran,
date back at least to 2004 when a prominent nuclear expert said
satellite images showed it may be a site for research and
testing relevant for nuclear weapons.
United Nations inspectors were allowed into the site a year
later but not to areas where the November report said an
explosives chamber was built.
Amano is hoping the exchanges with the Iranians will lead to
real progress in the new talks.
"On our part we will continue to be taking a constructive
approach and I expect an equally constructive approach on their
part," he said at the event commemorating the 45th anniversary
of a regional anti-nuclear proliferation treaty.
(Reporting by Mica Rosenberg; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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