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Barred from Iranian military site: IAEA
inspectors
But Iran says IAEA team was in Iran for talks, not inspection
Wednesday February 22, 2012 08:00:04 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow:
The UN's atomic watchdog said Wednesday it could not gain access
to a key Iranian military site as the country did not allow it.
Iran did not grant permission for the visit to the Parchin base
despite "intensive efforts", the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) said in a statement.
The IAEA said its expert team was returning from Iran after two
days of discussions with Iranian officials that concluded Tuesday.
The talks were designed to clarify the "possible military
dimensions" of Iran's disputed uranium enrichment programme, it
said.
Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to create a nuclear bomb
and have tightened sanctions against the Islamic republic.
Tehran, however, insists its programme is aimed at the production
of civilian nuclear energy.
There has also been growing speculation in recent weeks that
Israel may attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The US also has
refused to rule out force.
"It is disappointing that Iran did not accept our request to visit
Parchin during the first or second meetings," IAEA Director
General Yukiya Amano said in a statement posted on the
organisation's Facebook page. "We engaged in a constructive
spirit, but no agreement was reached."
The first round of IAEA discussions with Iran last month also bore
no fruit.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman had stressed Tuesday the IAEA
team was in Iran for talks, not for inspection.
Earlier Wednesday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
said Tehran is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
Iran wants to break "the authority of powers that are relying on
their nuclear arms", the official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei
as telling the Iranian nuclear experts.
He said assassinations of Iranian experts only indicate the
"weakness" of Iran's "enemies".
Based on an IAEA report released last November, the board of the
UN nuclear watchdog adopted a resolution on Iran's nuclear
programme, calling for intensified dialogue between the agency and
Iran to find solutions to unresolved issues.
The IAEA report, which alleges that Iran has engaged in nuclear
bomb-related activities, was rejected by Tehran.
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