Or so the headline reads. Here is the story:

Iran yesterday formally agreed to allow the United Nations' nuclear watchdog greater access to its nuclear facilities.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Ali Akbar Salehi, Tehran's IAEA representative, signed in Vienna an Additional Protocol to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that would allow tougher IAEA supervision, including the right of inspectors to visit Iran's nuclear sites with just two hours' notice.

The agreement follows increased US pressure on Tehran since President George W. Bush last year included Iran alongside Iraq and North Korea in an "axis of evil".

Tehran has denied any interest in nuclear weapons, which Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, has said are contrary to Islam.

Mr Salehi said yesterday that by signing the protocol Iran had taken "a great and important step towards revealing its attitude of transparency" and expressed the hope that it would "no more be subject to unfair and politically motivated accusations and allegations".

Iran told European Union foreign ministers in October that it would suspend uranium enrichment as a gesture of goodwill, and has insisted that traces of highly enriched uranium found by the IAEA last summer were due to contaminated imported equipment.

But in a report last month, the IAEA criticised Tehran for a lack of transparency.

(Also posted on my blog.)