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IAEA official denies NYT report on Iranian sites

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Dec 3, IRNA -- International Atomic Energy Agency`s 
pokesperson Melissa Fleming denied here Friday an American newspaper 
report concerning IAEA request for inspecting `Lavisan II`. 
New York Times claimed on Thursday that IAEA inspectors wanted 
access to two alleged secret military sites of "Parchin", southeast 
of Tehran, and "Lavisan II", northeast of the capital. 
In the report, NYT also wrote that according to the agreement 
between Iran and IAEA, the agency could only inspect non-military 
nuclear sites and not military bases. 
The paper added IAEA inspectors do not have permission to enter 
military compounds. 
Speaking to IRNA, Fleming said the agency or the director general 
in their report or negotiations never talked about Lavisan II and 
never asked for inspection of that site. 
Fleming added NYT report does not contain any new point and said 
the director general in his latest report to the IAEA Governing 
Council officially requested to inspect Parchin site. 
Concerning NYT claim that there have been experiments with 
explosives in the two aforementioned sites, Fleming said, "We have no 
comment or explanation". 
The New York Times reported Thursday that IAEA chief Mohamed Al 
Baradei had asked Tehran repeatedly and unsuccessfully for access to 
Parchin and Lavisan II. 
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