Ayatollah Khamenei insists Iran’s nuclear course will not change

The United States and Israel have not ruled out resorting to military action
against Iran if they conclude that diplomacy and sanctions will not stop it
from developing a nuclear warhead.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that UN
inspectors investigating suspected nuclear weapon activities had
been denied access
to a key military site.

“Intensive efforts were made to reach agreement on a document facilitating the
clarification of unresolved issues in connection with Iran’s nuclear
programme,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a
statement.

“Unfortunately, agreement was not reached on this document.”

The team requested access both during this visit and during a first trip in
late January to the Parchin military site, near Tehran, where it believes
explosives testing was carried out, but Iran “did not grant permission,” it
said.

“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 the statement.

“We engaged in a constructive spirit, but no agreement was reached.”

The IAEA delegation’s findings are likely to be included in a report by Amano
expected to be circulated to diplomats in Vienna later this week, which will
be presented to the IAEA’s 35-nation board of governors on March 5.

The report will also be closely watched for what progress Iran is making
fitting out its new enrichment facility inside a mountain bunker at Fordo,
amid speculation it is preparing to install thousands of new centrifuges
there.

The IAEA said in January Iran had begun to enrich uranium to 20 per cent at
the site, taking it significantly closer to the 90-percent purity uranium
needed to go into a nuclear bomb.

Source: agencies

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