IAEA: Access to Iran’s Parchin Military Site Meets Demands

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The United Nations nuclear watchdog said it is satisfied with access Iran will grant it to the country's Parchin military site, suspected by some states to have in the past hosted atomic bomb-related experiments.

Without International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] confirmation that Iran is keeping promises enshrined in a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers on July 14, the country will not be granted much-needed relief from sanctions.

According to data given to the IAEA by some member states, Parchin might have housed hydrodynamic experiments to assess how specific materials react under high pressure, such as in a nuclear blast.

Asked if Iran would be allowed to conduct inspections itself to address concerns about Parchin, the IAEA said it was legally bound to keep its arrangements with Tehran confidential.

"The separate arrangements of the roadmap are consistent with the IAEA verification practice and they meet the IAEA requirements," Serge Gas, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement.

Under a roadmap agreement Iran reached alongside the political deal, Iran is required to give the IAEA enough information about its past nuclear program to allow the watchdog to write a report on the issue by year-end.
Iran asserts that its nuclear program has no military dimensions.

Accordingly, the Obama administration had expressed confidence that the arrangement between the IAEA and Iran will work amid revelations that the UN nuclear body allowed Tehran experts to inspect their own key nuclear site.

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