Will Int’l Inspectors Be Admitted to Iran’s Suspect Site? No Answers From State Dept.

The issue of Iran’s role in inspecting a military base where nuclear weapons work is suspected to have taken place took up more than one-third of Thursday’s 66 minute-long State Department daily briefing, but the one question not answered relates to the central point – whether or not Iran will admit international inspectors to the site.

 

State Department spokesman John Kirby repeatedly said that the administration was “confident” and “comfortable” with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s arrangements, designed to settle concerns about Iranian activities carried out at the base at Parchin.

 

But whether those arrangements involve the physical presence of IAEA inspectors at the site remains unclear.

 

As lawmakers mull their stance on the Iran nuclear agreement, the debate’s focus turned this week to an exclusive Associated Press report saying the IAEA had agreed to allow the Iranians to carry out their own inspections of the Parchin base.

 

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