IAEA says access to Irans Parchin military site meets demands of nuclear deal
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said access it will receive to Irans Parchin military site, suspected by some states to have in the past hosted atomic bomb-related experiments, will satisfy its requirements.Without IAEA confirmation that Iran is keeping its promises enshrined in a landmark nuclear deal Tehran reached with world powers on July 14, the country will not be granted much-needed sanctions relief.Under a roadmap agreement Iran reached with the UN nuclear watchdog alongside the political deal, Iran is required to give the IAEA enough information about its past nuclear program to allow it to write a report on the issue by year-end.According to a leaked document obtained by the Associated Press, the IAEA will allow Iran to use its own experts and equipment to conduct an investigation into questions over its past nuclear weaponization work.The agreement, characterized as “unusual” by nuclear experts, amounts to the IAEA “essentially ceding the agency’s investigative authority to Iran,” the AP stated in its report.