Intel: European countries set to rebuke Iran at UN nuclear agency
Iran is facing a formal rebuke by the United Kingdom, France and Germany at the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency for refusing to cooperate with the agency’s inspection of two sites believed to have housed nuclear research in the past.
Iran is facing a formal rebuke by the United Kingdom, France and Germany at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency for refusing to cooperate with the agency’s inspection of two sites believed to have housed nuclear research in the past.
The rebuke would be the first at the IAEA since 2012, which was also directed at Iran. A draft of the motion was first reported by Bloomberg.
The head of the IAEA reiterated accusations Monday that Iran has blocked the agency’s access to two now-defunct sites where nuclear research is believed to have been conducted in the early 2000s, according to documents obtained by the Israeli government. Iran’s government has said the information was fabricated.
One of the facilities was partially demolished and the other appears to have undergone efforts to “sanitize” it of evidence of nuclear research, the IAEA said. A third site was fully destroyed in the early 2000s, rendering it unfit for inspection.
