Posted on 08/27/2015 10:49:44 PM PDT by Nachum
Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report obtained by the Reuters news agency on Thursday.
A resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Parchin file, which includes a demand for fresh IAEA access to the site, is a symbolically important issue that could help make or break Tehran's July 14 nuclear deal with six world powers.
The confidential IAEA report obtained by the news agency says, "Since (our) previous report (in May), at a particular location at the Parchin site, the agency has continued to observe, through satellite imagery, the presence of vehicles, equipment, and probable construction materials. In addition, a small extension to an existing building" appeared to have been built.
The changes were first observed last month, a senior diplomat familiar with the Iran file said.
The IAEA says any activities Iran has undertaken at Parchin since UN inspectors last visited in 2005 could jeopardize its ability to verify Western intelligence suggesting Tehran carried out tests there relevant to nuclear bomb detonations more than a decade ago.
Iran has dismissed the intelligence as "fabricated".
Under a "road map" Iran reached with the IAEA parallel to its agreement with six global powers, it is required to give the Vienna-based watchdog enough information about its past nuclear activity to allow it to write a report on the long vexed issue by year-end.
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Well all we have to do under the agreement is to ask permission to search.
All the Iranians have to do say is say the magic words , “Unless we mutually agres to allow you to, you have no inspection rights and we do not agree to allow you access or inspection rights” , and the IAEA is dead in the water and barred from the facility or inspection
Don’t worry, we can always ask the Iranians to inspect themselves. I’m sure they’d be more than willing to - as long as we reimburse them the cost of self-inspection. I’ll bet I can even guess their findings: “nothing to worry about.”
Since the Iranians are self-inspecting, why don’t we just ask them? They’ll get to the bottom of it.
Isn't there a provision in the agreement where we can just pay the Iranians to 'search' their own sites? Then when they find nothing they bill us for the effort?
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