Iran denies it has ever sought nuclear weapons, and insists Parchin is a conventional military site.
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Iranian lawmakers are in the final stages of reviewing the text of the nuclear agreement. “With the country’s full cooperation we can gain the trust of the worldwide community toward the peaceful purposes of Iran’s nuclear program”, said Amano. “There was no equipment in the building”, he said.
Western intelligence agencies have long suspected that nuclear arms research took place at Parchin. The IAEA also said Amano was accompanied by his deputy. Amano repeated this point on Monday.
He has said that the meeting should be held without the presence of any TV cameras.
“Following the visit, this extension is not a matter of concern to the agency”, the report said.
Iran’s potential involvement in the Parchin inspection was foreshadowed by the Obama administration in August.
Amano is in Iran to discuss the implementation of a secret roadmap meant to solve those issues, though critics have pointed to faults in some parts of the agreements between Iran and the IAEA that have come to light.
The IAEA also has refused to detail the arrangement, saying only that it meets its stringent inspection requirements. He says the IAEA confirms “the integrity of the sampling process and the authenticity of the samples”.
“Authentication by the agency of the samples was achieved through use of an established verification process”.
But in a statement, the IAEA director general appeared to clarify what had happened.
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The “environmental sampling from some specific parts within the Parchin complex” was conducted in the past week, according to the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Behrouz Kamalvandi.
“They followed regulations and standards and the samples were given to IAEA’s experts”, he added.
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The draft didn’t say whether IAEA personnel would be present anywhere on the base during the inspections.
