Tehran, Nov 6, SPA -- Iran has opened a high-securitymilitary site to U.N. nuclear inspectors who also met senior personnel at the facility, an Iranian official said Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said theapproval was given to the inspectors after they requestedto visit the Parchin military site, about 30 kilometers (20miles) southeast of Tehran. "This was not the first time. They had visited Parchinbefore. This time they asked to visit other areas of thesite," Asefi told reporters during his weekly pressconference. "They talked with our friends this time. What they havedone in Iran has been in the framework of the NPT (nuclearnonproliferation treaty) and safeguards," he said withoutelaborating, according to a report of the Associated Press. Asefi said that Iran was reviewing a Russian proposal forjoint production of nuclear fuel and is ready to review anyfurther plans. Iran's offer of foreign participation in Iran's nuclearprogram, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised inSeptember, was the best way to assure the world aboutIran's peaceful intentions, Asefi said. On Saturday, Iran approved a resolution accepting foreignparticipation in its nuclear enrichment plant in Natanz,central Iran. Before the next IAEA board meeting on Nov. 24, inspectorsalso hope to visit Lavizan-Shian.--SPA1442 Local Time 1142 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/300854