(AP) Kiyoko Metzler - The new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said Tuesday that the agency is still waiting for information from Iran on the discovery of uranium particles at a site near Tehran. "We have so far not received an entirely satisfactory reply from them," he said. The U.S. and Israel had been pressing the IAEA for some time to look into the Turquzabad facility, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described to the UN in 2018 as a "secret atomic warehouse." In November, the agency confirmed that its inspectors had found uranium of man-made origin "at a location in Iran not declared to the agency."
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