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Iran Expert: IAEA Needs to Be Able to Inspect Everywhere
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - The International Atomic Energy Agency needs to be able to inspect everywhere in Iran, Dr. Emily Landau, who heads the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said in an interview on Wednesday. "The point is to be able to inspect any suspicious facility: whether a warehouse, materials and equipment, archives or actual military bases." Part of the problem is that "the JCPOA [Iran deal] unfortunately doesn't give them that authority. That's why the P5+1 need to press for this. But the P5+1 are not pressing them to do that because they agreed to the miserably inadequate" inspection provisions in the first place. Landau added that the JCPOA has meant that all IAEA reports on Iran's nuclear program in recent years have been gutted of anything but superficial information. "In Netanyahu's speech at the UN, he said: 'Here are the coordinates. Here is the warehouse - check it out.'" Then IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano implies "that because the information comes from Netanyahu, he's complicating their effort because he is undermining the agency's impartiality." "Netanyahu made this information public at the UN because he had quietly passed information from [Iran's nuclear] archives to the IAEA and he said nothing had been done. That was April 30. Now it was late September, and in order to push the IAEA to do something, he disclosed this at the UN."