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UN nuclear watchdog says Iran expanding stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium

2024-05-28

[IsraelTimes] Tehran has not reconsidered barring of IAEA’s most experienced inspectors, confidential report says, as talks with Islamic Republic falter after president’s fatal crash

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Russian Foreign Ministry blames the strikes on the Zaporizhia NPP on the countries helping Kyiv

2024-04-09

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[Regnum] The blame for the attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), as well as for their consequences, falls fully on the countries helping Kyiv. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The country’s foreign ministry also added that Russia expects IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to provide a public and completely truthful response to the Kiev regime’s attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on the international community to deprive Kyiv of the ability to carry out terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities.

At the same time, according to the ministry, Russia is doing everything necessary to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant in accordance with international legal obligations. The Russian Federation will identify and prosecute those responsible for attacks on its nuclear facilities, regardless of their location, the statement clarifies.

The country's Foreign Ministry indicated that Ukraine, supported by the United States and its satellites, makes it clear that it has taken the path of nuclear terror.

The blame for the attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), as well as for their consequences, falls fully on the countries helping Kyiv. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the attacks of the Kiev regime on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

“The blame for the strikes on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, as well as for their possible consequences, falls fully on the leadership of those states that supply the Kiev regime with weapons and intelligence, supply it with financial resources, train military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and provide information “support” for Ukrainian crimes,” - emphasized in the diplomatic department.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also stated that Russia expects Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to provide a public and completely truthful response to the Kyiv regime’s attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on the world community, international organizations, primarily the IAEA, to deprive Kyiv of the ability to carry out terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities.

At the same time, according to the ministry, Russia is doing everything necessary to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant in accordance with international legal obligations. The Russian Federation will identify and prosecute those responsible for attacks on its nuclear facilities, regardless of their location, the statement clarifies.

The country's Foreign Ministry indicated that Ukraine, supported by the United States and its satellites, makes it clear that it has taken the path of nuclear terror.

As Regnum reported, on April 7, Rosatom reported an unprecedented attack by the Kiev regime’s drones on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The strikes created a real threat to the safety of the Zaporizhia NPP.

Three employees were injured due to unprecedented drone attacks.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine stated that it was not involved in the attacks on the Zaporizhia NPP. In response to this, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called on the curators of the Kiev regime to stop attacks on the station, emphasizing that such attacks are acts of nuclear terrorism.

The official representative of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian military is a very dangerous provocation that can have very bad consequences.

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Zakharova: by supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with drones, the USA and Britain are sponsoring nuclear terrorism in Kyiv

The United States and Britain, by supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with drones, are behind the attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, sponsoring nuclear terrorism in Kiev, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on April 8.

The Western patrons of the Kiev regime provide it not only with weapons, but also with political support and information cover, Zakharova noted on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

“Behind all this are, first of all, the United States of America, Britain and all those of their satellites, which individually and collectively supply the Kiev regime with these very unmanned vehicles, these very shells with which they are loaded, this very money with which all this is produced, political support and motivation, and also, most importantly, information cover,” said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As Regnum reported, on April 7, Rosatom reported an unprecedented attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The strikes created a real threat to the safety of the Zaporizhia NPP, the company’s press service noted. One of the drones attacked the dome of the sixth power unit of the station. The object did not suffer critical damage, and the radiation background at the station did not change.

IAEA inspectors, who were on the territory of the nuclear power plant at the time of the strike, confirmed the attack for the first time since 2022 and reported three hits to the structure of the containment shell of the main reactor. Agency head Rafael Grossi called the attack reckless, emphasizing that attacks on the facility seriously increase the risk of a nuclear accident and must be stopped immediately. The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant was close to a nuclear accident, Grossi said.

The blame for the strikes on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as well as for their consequences, falls fully on the countries helping Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Moscow will raise the issue of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the station at one of the next meetings of the UN Security Council on Ukraine, said Russia’s permanent representative to the world organization Vasily Nebenzya.

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IAEA inspectors confirmed strikes on Zaporizhia NPP for the first time since 2022

2024-04-08

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[Regnum] International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors stationed at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant confirmed at least three direct hits on the site for the first time since November 2022, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.

"Today, for the first time since November 2022... IAEA inspectors at the Zaporozhye NPP confirmed that there were at least three direct hits to the containment structure of the main reactor of the Zaporozhye NPP," Grossi wrote on his page on the social network X on April 7.

Earlier, Rafael Grossi called the attack on the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant reckless and stressed that attacks on the facility seriously increase the risk of a nuclear accident and must be stopped immediately.

As Regnum reported, on Sunday morning, drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the infrastructure of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as a result of which three employees of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant were injured. The object did not receive critical damage, the radiation background did not change. The Russian state corporation Rosatom categorically condemned this attack and called on the leadership of the IAEA and the international community to respond to what happened.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called on the Kiev regime to stop attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and emphasized that the Ukrainian authorities, making attempts to attack the facility, do not realize that in this way they are committing an act of nuclear terrorism.

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Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine declared that Kyiv was not involved in the attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

A representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Andrei Yusov, said that Kiev was allegedly not involved in the attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on April 7.

"Ukraine is not involved in any armed provocations on the territory of... the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant," the Ukrayinska Pravda publication quotes a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as saying.

As Regnum reported, on Sunday morning, drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the infrastructure of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as a result of which three employees of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant were injured. The object did not receive critical damage, the radiation background did not change.

The Russian state corporation Rosatom categorically condemned this attack and called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the world community to respond to the threat to the safety of the Zaporizhia NPP.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called on the Kiev regime to stop the attacks and emphasized that the Ukrainian authorities, when carrying out attacks on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, do not realize that in this way they are committing an act of nuclear terrorism.

The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, called the drone attack on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant reckless. He noted that attacks on the facility seriously increase the risk of a nuclear accident and must be stopped immediately.

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Zakharova called on the curators of Kyiv to stop the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporizhzhya NPP

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The diplomat called on the curators of the Kyiv regime to stop the attacks, noting that they are unlikely to realize that their charges are committing an act of nuclear terrorism.

"How many more times should the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant so that the West and the monster Zelensky, fed by it, stop repeating this deadly act of their bloody tent?" — the diplomat wrote in the Telegram channel.

As Regnum reported, on April 7, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked the Zaporizhzhya NPP in the area of the canteen 20 minutes after the planned inspection of the territory by IAEA experts, as a result of which a truck unloading food was damaged. Later, two more drones attacked the station’s cargo port area and the dome of the sixth power unit. The structure did not suffer critical damage, and the radiation background did not change.

Later, the Rosatom corporation announced a direct threat to the safety of the station. Three employees were injured due to unprecedented drone attacks.

The day before the attacks, the head of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on issues of sovereignty, Vladimir Rogov, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks on the station were connected with the desperation of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who, in his opinion, intends to use nuclear terrorism to cause a resonance in the world and attract to Kiev attention.

Zaporozhye NPP has been under the control of Rosenergoatom JSC since October 2022. The nuclear power plant is located near Energodar on the shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir and consists of six power units. Since March 2022, Zaporizhia NPP has been under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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Finland to Bury Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years

2024-04-02

[BBC, hat tip Red State] Nuclear energy currently provides about 10% of the world's electricity. Being low-carbon, it's seen by many as an important player in the fight against climate change.

But it has also remained controversial in many countries due to its high cost and long build times, as well as concerns over the safety of nuclear reactors and the unresolved issue of what to do with nuclear waste.

"Onkalo" is a Finnish word for a cave or a hollow. It's a fitting name for a huge grave made in Finland over the last 20 years. Onkalo, which lies 450m (1,500ft) deep inside the bedrock of Olkiluoto island in the southwest of the country, is the world's first permanent storage site for spent nuclear.

Onkalo has cost €1bn (£860m/$1.07bn) to build and is expected to begin operations in about two years. Its arrival has been hailed as a game changer by many, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Everybody knew of the idea of a geological repository for high-level radioactive nuclear waste, but Finland did it," commented Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA director general, on a visit to the site in 2020.

The Onkalo repository is based on the KBS-3 concept developed by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, in cooperation with Posiva. The idea is to create three barriers around nuclear waste: first, put it in copper canisters, then wrap the canisters in bentonite — a water-absorbing clay — and finally, bury them in tunnels deep in the bedrock.

"We've all benefited from nuclear energy for over 60 years," says Lewis Blackburn, a lecturer in nuclear materials at the University of Sheffield in the UK. "It's our generation of scientists' and engineers' responsibility to undertake the challenge to dispose of the waste, instead of leaving it to future generations.

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US slams Iran for ‘stonewalling’ IAEA probe into unexplained uranium traces

2024-03-08

[IsraelTimes] Washington says it will seek a ’comprehensive report’ on Tehran’s nuclear activities if it won’t cooperate with UN watchdog, then may ’take appropriate action’

The United States on Thursday threatened future action against Iran
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at the UN nuclear watchdog if Tehran keeps "stonewalling" the watchdog by denying it the cooperation and answers it seeks on issues including long-unexplained uranium traces.

At a quarterly meeting of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors, Washington again told Iran to cooperate with IAEA inspectors who for years have been seeking explanations from Tehran on the origin of uranium particles at undeclared sites.

The US has stopped short, for now, of seeking a resolution against Iran, however. Diplomats have cited the US presidential election in November as a reason Washington has been reluctant to do that. Tehran bristles at such resolutions and often responds by stepping up its activities.

"We believe we have come to the point that we and the broader international community must consider anew how to respond to Iran’s continued stonewalling," the United States said in a statement to the board meeting. "We cannot allow Iran’s current pattern of behavior to continue."

It is now more than a year since the last board resolution against Iran, which ordered it to cooperate urgently with the investigation into the particles. Tehran dismissed the resolution as "political" and "anti-Iranian" even though only China and Russia opposed it.

The US and its three top European allies — Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany — again opted against seeking a resolution against Iran at this week’s meeting but Washington said that if Iran did not provide the necessary cooperation soon, it would act.

"It is our strongly held view that Iran’s continuing lack of credible cooperation provides grounds for pursuing further Board of Governors action, including the possibility of additional resolutions and consideration of whether Iran is once again in noncompliance with its safeguards obligations," it said.

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pulled the US out of a 2015 deal under which major powers lifted sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities. After sanctions were re-imposed, Iran expanded those activities far beyond the deal’s limits.

It is now enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons-grade and far above the deal’s cap of 3.67%. Western powers say there is no credible civil explanation for enriching to that level and the IAEA says no country has done so without producing a nuclear bomb.

Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful and it has the right to enrich to high levels for civil purposes.

The United States said Iran should provide the IAEA with cooperation including access "for the purposes of collecting environmental samples... and it must begin to do so now."

If it did not, it would ask IAEA chief Rafael Grossi to provide a "comprehensive report" on Iran’s nuclear activities more wide-ranging than his regular quarterly ones, it said.

"Then, based on the content of that report, we will take appropriate action in support of the IAEA and the global nuclear nonproliferation regime," it added.

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IAEA warns Iran building up uranium stockpile, still barring senior monitors

2024-02-27

[IsraelTimes] Report notes decrease in amount of uranium enriched to 60% purity, a short step from weapon’s grade material, after Tehran diluted some of it in recent weeks

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has further increased its total stockpile of uranium, according to a report by the UN nuclear watchdog seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Monday, and it continues to bar the agency’s most seasoned inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program.

The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency also said in a second confidential report, distributed to member states, that Tehran made no progress in explaining the presence of manmade uranium particles found at two locations.

The IAEA estimated in its quarterly report that as of February 10, Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile was at 5,525.5 kilograms (about 12,182 pounds), an increase of 1,038.7 kilograms (2,289 pounds) since the last quarterly report in November 2023.

It also said that according to its assessment, Iran has an estimated 121.5 kilograms (267.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60 percent purity, which represents a decrease of 6.8 kilograms (14.9 pounds) since the last report in November 2023.

The decrease is the result of Iran having diluted some of its 60% enriched uranium in recent weeks with lower-grade material.

According to the IAEA’s definition, around 42 kilograms (92.5 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60% is the amount at which creating one atomic weapon is theoretically possible. The 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

Between June and November last year, Iran slowed down the enrichment to 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) per month, but then increased the rate again to 9 kilograms (19.8 pounds) at the end of the year, the IAEA reported.

Eric Brewer, deputy vice president of the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Iran could potentially make several nuclear bombs.

"Iran has enough 60 percent material for roughly three nuclear weapons if further enriched to 90 percent. When you include Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium and 5 percent, it has enough material for several additional bombs," Brewer said.

"Iran would only need a couple of weeks to produce that weapons-grade material, but probably much longer—a year or more—to build an actual bomb it could deliver," he added.

In the second report, the IAEA said Iran’s government has not responded to the nuclear watchdog’s request about the origin and current location of manmade uranium particles found at two locations that Tehran has failed to declare as potential nuclear sites, named Varamin and Turquzabad.

The IAEA has accused Iran of stonewalling such an investigation over the past five years. However,
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Tehran made some progress by providing "a possible explanation" for the undeclared uranium particles for another location called Marivan in 2023. Western officials have suggested the so-called safeguards probe of the undeclared sites could confirm longstanding suspicions that Iran had a nuclear weapons program up until 2003.

The report also said there was no progress thus far in reinstalling more monitoring equipment, including cameras, removed in June 2022. The IAEA stated their inspectors were allowed to "service the cameras at the workshops in Esfahan, but without providing access to the data recorded by those cameras."

Since June 2022, the only recorded data is that of the cameras at the centrifuge workshop in Isfahan in May 2023 — although Iran has not provided the IAEA with access to this data.

Iran responded to criticism by the US, Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany on those issues by barring several of the IAEA’s most experienced inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program in September 2023.

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Iran says it successfully launched satellite in Revolutionary Guards’ space program

2024-01-21

[IsraelTimes] Tehran says it reached highest orbit yet; no independent confirmation; US has said launch vehicle development ’shortens timeline’ for intercontinental ballistic missile advancement

The Soraya satellite was placed in an orbit at some 750 kilometers (460 miles) above the Earth’s surface with a three-stage rocket, the state-run IRNA news agency said. It did not immediately acknowledge what the satellite did.

The launch was part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ space program alongside Iran’s civilian space program, the report said.

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Biden's Iran de-escalation strategy backfiring as regime close to producing atomic bomb

2024-01-14

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[WallStreetPR - FoxNews] Top Iran experts in the U.S. and in Israel are warning President Biden that his administration’s strategy of de-escalation and containment targeting the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism – the Islamic Republic of Iran – has failed and America needs to reestablish deterrence against Tehran as fears of the regime obtaining a nuclear device grow.

Alarming reports about Iran moving at an astonishingly fast pace to possess a nuclear weapon have emerged since last month.

In December, Reuters reported that a confidential IAEA report released to member states said it had “increased its production of highly enriched uranium, reversing a previous output reduction from mid-2023.” Reuters also said in its report “that Iran is enriching to up to 60%, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, at its Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) in its sprawling Natanz complex and at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), which is dug into a mountain.”

In a report titled “How quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons today?” published earlier this month by David Albright, a physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, stated, “The long pole in the tent of building nuclear weapons is essentially complete. Iran can quickly make enough weapon-grade uranium for many nuclear weapons, something it could not do in 2003.” Albright said Iran had a “crash nuclear weapons program” up until 2003, which it then changed to a “more dispersed nuclear weapons effort.”

In his report, Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, wrote, “Today, it would need only about a week to produce enough for its first nuclear weapon. It could have enough weapon-grade uranium for six weapons in one month, and after five months of producing weapon-grade uranium, it could have enough for 12.”

Asked by Fox News Digital about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a State Department spokesperson said, “As the President and the Secretary have made clear, the United States will ensure one way or another that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. We continue to use a variety of tools in pursuit of that goal, and all options remain on the table. As the Secretary has said, we always prefer diplomacy to achieve that goal, but given Iran’s nuclear escalations and its failure to cooperate with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], unfortunately we are far away from anything like that right now.”

Gabriel Noronha, a former U.S. Department State adviser on Iran, told Fox News Digital, “Biden’s hope has been to bribe Iran not to advance its nuclear program through economic concessions and non-enforcement of sanctions. Iran advanced its nuclear program anyway and pocketed the extra revenue from oil sales to increase funding to its terror proxies. We have had zero wins on the Iran file in the past three years, but seen their strength return from their weakened state during the policy of maximum pressure.”

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Iran dismisses report that it raised production rate of near-weapons-grade uranium

2023-12-27

[Iran] Tehran dismisses the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s report that Iran
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Operation OPERA: Israeli Attack on Iraq's Osirak 1981

2023-10-10

[National Security Archive] Washington, D.C., June 7, 2021 — On June 7, 1981, 40 years ago today, Israel attacked and partially destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research reactor at Tuwaitha, using U.S. supplied F-15 and F-16 aircraft to carry out the attack. Ten Iraqi soldiers and one French engineer were killed during the airstrike. Apparently, the Israeli raid took President Ronald Reagan and his advisers completely by surprise, yet their predecessors, including President Jimmy Carter, were aware of the strong possibility of an attack.

As early as July 1980, U.S. Ambassador Sam Lewis warned Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and President Carter in an eyes-only telegram that his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Begin had led him to conclude that the Israelis might undertake "preemptive strikes with conventional weapons... regardless of the awesome consequences of such action." Later, Lewis suggested that information on this and other discussions with Begin did not reach the Reagan administration, though more needs to be learned about the sources for this gap in "institutional memory."

According to Lewis’s messages, the Israelis were particularly worried about French and Italian aid to the Iraqi nuclear program and in a briefing to Begin in December 1980 Lewis assured him that we "are taking widespread concern about the Iran-Iraq war to press Italy and France to reassess their nuclear cooperation with Iraq." Whether the Israelis were told about secret French measures to prevent an Iraqi weapons program is unclear, but Lewis warned Begin that "precipitate action against Iraq’s nuclear installations would be a severe setback to prospects for Middle East peace." Indeed, the attack had a strongly negative impact on Israel’s image in the Arab world and elsewhere.

The reactor had been purchased from France under a bilateral agreement that it would be used for peaceful purposes. The research facility was also subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. Israel asserted that Iraq was on the brink of developing a nuclear weapons capability and justified the attack as an act of self-defense. Iraq insisted that its reactor program was peaceful, and France said that the reactor’s design features and the precautionary procedures it had implemented insured that the Osirak reactor could never be used in the production of nuclear weapons.

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Iran bars IAEA inspectors over their countries' 'harsh' behaviors toward Tehran: Nuclear chief

2023-10-05

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In ‘unprecedented’ move, Iran bars 1/3 of UN inspectors from accessing nuclear sites

2023-09-17

[IsraelTimes] IAEA chief slams ’profoundly regrettable’ Iranian decision, warns it will harm agency’s capacity to monitor nuclear program; Tehran claims ’political’ use of watchdog by West

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