The NAM diplomats, comprised of ambassadors from Egypt, Malaysia, Cuba, Algeria and Sudan, and a Syrian representing the Arab League, arrived for a tour of the site that converts uranium ore into feedstock uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas. About 90 Iranian and foreign journalists were also taken to the facility in a barren area south-east of the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Anti-aircraft guns surrounded the site. "The aim of? this visit is to underline again the transparency of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, " Hossein Simorgh, spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told reporters.

The US accuses Iran of secretly working to make atomic bombs under cover of a civilian nuclear program to generate electricity.