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IAEA urges swift access to Iran’s Parchin military site

Iran Press TV

Mon Mar 4, 2013 4:52PM GMT

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano has urged Iran to give international inspectors swift access to the Parchin military site located in the south of Tehran.

“I request Iran once again to provide access to the Parchin site without further delay,” Amano said in an address to a routine meeting of the IAEA's Board of Governors at the body’s headquarters in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Monday.

“Providing access to the Parchin site would be a positive step which would help to demonstrate Iran’s willingness to engage with the agency on the substance of our concerns,” he added.

Iran has vehemently dismissed allegations about clandestine nuclear activities at its Parchin military site. The IAEA inspectors have so far visited the site two times.

“Parchin is a military site and continues its own specific activities without having anything to do with [Iran’s] nuclear work,” Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on January 15.

Amano added that negotiations must proceed with a sense of urgency and a focus on achieving results in the near term.

He noted that the IAEA remained committed to engaging in constructive dialogue with Iran.

On February 21, Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh once again expressed Iran’s commitment to resolving issues pertaining to its nuclear energy program with the UN nuclear agency.

He added that Iran was committed to the continuation of talks with the IAEA to resolve the outstanding issues.

Iran and the IAEA wrapped up their latest round of talks on the Iranian nuclear energy program in Tehran on February 13.

After the talks, Soltanieh, who headed the Iranian negotiating team, said Tehran and the agency had resolved some differences and reached an agreement on certain issues.

The United States, the Israeli regime and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program. Iran categorically rejects the allegation.

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