The chief of the UN nuclear agency insisted today that a probe of a suspected nuclear weapons research site in Iran does meet strict agency standards, while acknowledging that Iranian experts provided samples from the site for analysis.
Such sampling is usually done by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s own experts. But IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Iranians carried out that part of the probe at Parchin, where the agency suspects that explosive triggers for nuclear weapons might have been tested. The arrangement was first revealed in a confidential draft pact between the sides. The draft said Iranian experts, monitored by video and still cameras, would gather environmental samples at the site and hand them over to the agency.
Such sampling is usually done by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s own experts. But IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Iranians carried out that part of the probe at Parchin, where the agency suspects that explosive triggers for nuclear weapons might have been tested. The arrangement was first revealed in a confidential draft pact between the sides. The draft said Iranian experts, monitored by video and still cameras, would gather environmental samples at the site and hand them over to the agency.
