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Iran, IAEA spar over access to Karaj nuclear site

The International Atomic Energy Agency claims that Iran has limited its access to the Karaj nuclear facility, where surveillance cameras have been damaged.
A picture taken on Nov. 10, 2019, shows an Iranian flag in Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, during an official ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor at the facility.

The spokesperson for Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, Behrouz Kamalvandi, has responded to the International Atomic Energy Agency on limitations on access to parts of Iran’s nuclear program. Kamalvandi said that the IAEA's claim that access to a nuclear facility was restricted was “one-sided and biased” and “not productive” to the process described in a Sept. 12 joint statement issued by Iran and IAEA director Rafael Grossi.

The IAEA said yesterday that Iran had limited its access to the Karaj nuclear facility, which was the site of a sabotage attack Tehran blamed on Israel earlier this year. Kamalvandi himself was injured and hospitalized during a visit to the site to inspect the damage. During Grossi’s visit for talks in Iran, it became public that cameras at Karaj had been damaged.

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